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And some also apply to the current incumbent so I'm not really sure what we should draw from that.
by Guthur 5y ago
And some also apply to the current incumbent so I'm not really sure what we should draw from that.
- AstralStorm 5y agoYou should recognize them as fascist adjacent, as they rightly are. Most of the things on the list are actively bad in any political system. Half of them are inexcusable. A few are essentially descriptions of populism being acted upon, and a few are typical reactionary features. For example, current Polish governing party fits: 1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14.
- spamizbad 5y agoThe US is a democracy but it’s always been flirty with fascist elements. So it’s no surprise you can look at the American government, under any president, and see some fascistic elements at work.
- OrvalWintermute 5y agoWe also support socialistic elements too. In the Marxist sense, we are a synthesis . Our competition is most likely the Chinese Communists which have broadly adopted capitalism, but retain the oligarchic power structures at the top, and state control of enterprises. They represent a different synthesis
- krapp 5y agoFascism isn't binary, it's a spectrum. Trump was closer to the "Literally Hitler" end of the scale than Biden is to the "Literally Stalin" end, but many symptoms of fascism are endemic to American culture and politics.
- zzyzxxz 5y agoIt's more fair to compare Presidents with George Washington than with their predecessors. I can't imagine George Washington standing in front of a church holding a bible upside-down, or advocating that people ought to put cleaning fluids into their lungs.
- krapp 5y agoI see what you're trying to do, but be careful... while Trump may have cheated his employees (according to affidavits from the many lawsuits against him,) George Washington owned men as slaves.