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Early warning signs of fascism:
1.) Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2.) Disdain for the importance of human rights
3.) Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4.) The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5.) Rampant sexism
6.) A controlled mass media
7.) Obsession with national security
8.) Religion and ruling elite tied together
9.) Power of corporations protected
10.) Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11.) Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12.) Obsession with crime and punishment
13.) Rampant cronyism and corruption
14.) Fraudulent elections
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USA was founded by slavers who were the pre-cursors to fascism.
USA was fascist from inception even before fascism.
They helped building it, by constantly taking the "moral high ground" (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren't actually fascists).
The Democrats were less obvious but still bow down to corporations.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
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Corporatism doesn't have to come with racism. Technically fascism neither, but nobody uses it like that.
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Sex, size, place of birth, lineage. Why is race necessary to divide people?
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Merger is the key word.
Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
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So watch out for more signs of fascism, particularly when corporate rights trump individuals.
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lol. Gotta remember freedom means dollars and press means buying politicians.
Not to mention the many actual journalists murdered by empire. There have been hundreds in palestine alone... Plus prisoners like chelsea manning, etc.
It's a sliding scale and it's recently descended into unambiguously facist territory.
Its like diagnosing a disease: just one symptom isn't conclusive, but when you have all the known symptoms you can be pretty sure what it is.
At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor's seat. Yes.