Let's take a reading on our potential slide toward fascism.
Fascism (pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/): A radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy.
One common definition of fascism focuses on three groups of ideas:
a) Fascist Negations
Anti-liberalism CHECK
Anti-communism CHECK
Anti-conservatism NOT YET
b) Ideology and goals
Creating a new nationalist, authoritarian state not based on tradition CHECK
A new kind of regulated, multi-class national economic structure which can transform social relations, whether syndicalist, corporatist or national socialist CHECK
The goal of empire DEFINITELY CHECK
An idealist, voluntarist creed, typically to realize a new modern, self-determined secular culture NOPE
c) Style and organization
Aesthetic structure of meetings, symbols stressing romantic and mystical aspects CHECK
Mass mobilization with militarization of political relationships and style and the goal of a mass party militia CHECK
Positive view and use of violence CHECK (TORTURE, WAR, ETC.)
Extreme stress on the masculine principle BOOYAH!!
Exaltation of youth BOOYAH!!
Authoritarian, charismatic personal style of command CHECK (WORSHIP OF REAGAN, BUSH)
According to NOWITALL's American Fascism Meter™, we're mostly there.
Definitions of Fascism compiled by Wikipedia. NAFM™ readings done by me.
