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Maybe it’s our biases but I happened to assign more points to R’s. I felt D’s didn’t get enough to be fascists. Also this isn’t about any party - I think the t
by garyfirestorm 5y ago
Maybe it’s our biases but I happened to assign more points to R’s. I felt D’s didn’t get enough to be fascists.
Also this isn’t about any party - I think the test should be of the country at the moment.
- tablespoon 5y agoOne of the issues is that this is a list of "Defining Characteristics of Fascism" generalized from some famous right-wing regimes by some guy about whom I can find very little information online besides this list (and what little biographical detail I can find calls into question his credentials to make such definitive statements https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1162838581158633472 https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1162838581158633472: "Lawrence Britt isn't a doctor or a political scientist. He's a former Xerox executive who wrote a thriller..."). I think "authoritarianism" and "totalitarianism" are terms used nowadays to generalize the bad bits of "fascism" in a way that can apply to both the left and the right.