Post by midcan5 on Oct 15, 2024 18:53:40 GMT -5
Many thoughtful people debate whether America is on the road to fascism should Trump be reelected. Others ask what is fascism. A few go so far as to claim it isn't that bad or even an issue. This pops up online in chat forums. So then what say you.
"Fascism is a far-right form of government in which most of the country's power is held by one ruler or a small group, under a single party. Fascist governments are usually totalitarian and authoritarian one-party states.
"[fascism is] a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
'Roger Eatwell defines fascism as "an ideology that strives to forge social rebirth based on a holistic-national radical Third Way", [while Walter Laqueur sees the core tenets of fascism as "self-evident: nationalism; social Darwinism; racialism, the need for leadership, a new aristocracy, and obedience; and the negation of the ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution."['
'Trump’s latest speech echoes fascist rhetoric'
protectdemocracy.org/work/trump-latest-speech-echoes-fascist-rhetoric/
'Why Aren’t We Talking About Trump’s Fascism?'
www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-distraction-trump-fascism/
'Why We Should Now Call Trump a Fascist, and How Trumpism Can Be Stopped'
ilaglobalnetwork.org/why-we-should-now-call-trump-a-fascist-and-how-trumpism-can-be-stopped/