Why are we not fascists?

Question

Not fascist in the sense that we have not gone astray as, say, Mussolini's doctrines. What distinct qualities of the American status quo distinguishes us from former fascist states?

Answer 1

I am a Liberal and I don't believe this is a fascist state. However, that doesn't mean we should be complaisant about our liberties or the actions of our government. There are a lot of wackos on Yahoo answers on both sides of this issue.

As a Liberal my main concern is giving the super rich the power of kings in this democratic country. As a Libertarian (I can be both) I am concerned over the fact that the government is looming over us and looking to see what breckfast food we eat in the morning.

The average Joe is not much of a capitalist. Sure, he dabbles in the markets a little with his pension plan and he hopes our economy grows...he wants them to do well enough so that guys like him can have a decent job. But it serves no purpose to Joe that the rich are given royal treatment and control his life by their decisions. There must be controls over employers and income must be taxed...kings must not be made. The rich don't usually send their children to war, they pay taxes instead.

The government must be the servant of average Joe as long as he's law abiding and a good citizen. If our government becomes the servant of business, this country is no longer a democracy and its policies will not reflect the common man...our soldiers will actually be killing people for someone's profit...there is evidence that this may be happening now, but there is an election this fall that will serve as a check on that behavior. As long as people can elect real representatives, this country will not be fascist.

Answer 2

Here is a commonly used list of characteristics (that can be found at any number of web sites) used to define fascism:

•Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
•Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
•Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
•Supremacy of the Military
•Rampant Sexism
•Controlled Mass Media
•Obsession with National Security
•Religion and Government are Intertwined
•Corporate Power is Protected
•Labor Power is Suppressed
•Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
•Obsession with Crime and Punishment
•Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
•Fraudulent Elections

Our enemies are not fascists, unless you want to invent a new term and call them something like post-modern Islamic neo-fascists-who-aren’t-really-fascists fascists.

Use of the term, or the term in some connection with Islam, is a political trick to get at the emotions of terminally stupid people (“right-wing Christians”) who know nothing about anything, but will do whatever Rove programs them to do.

Really, is there one person who believes that Bush can define fascist? Bush could not find Iraq on map that did not have a big arrow pointing to it. Do you think he can name a non-Arabic country that borders Iraq and the language spoken there?

Actually, the term fascist does not apply to any of the groups involved. However, if you were to poll right-wing Christians on each of the traits, individually, that define fascism, most would probably agree that the majority of the concepts are good and Godly things that America needs more of. Like the pot calling the kettle ‘black’ or, in this case, a Christian-fascist calling a non-Christian non-fascist a fascist.

Answer 3

Letäs start with the fact that you can walk down the street and say
..."the prez is a dickheäd and in November I'm gonna vote against him"
and go from there.


Sheesh, dude, you've been listening to your teacher's union 7th grade english hag a little too long.

Answer 4

Because we go against fascist beliefs. America is about freedom, no matter what political party you vote for here...

Answer 5

in a fascist society, everyone participates in the military (see israel). in our society, the government elites who have never stepped foot into combat boots, gleefully send off poor minorities and lower class whites to do their bidding to preserve their greedy interests, they have to cause they have no options, and the majority middle class does not give sh!t because they are not (yet) affected.

Answer 6

I think we actually are Fascist under the Bush Doctrine.........

Answer 7

We are protecting our people from people who want to kill our people.

We are not protecting our govt from ITS OWN PEOPLE who
want to overthrow our own govt, but are held in place by
military gunmen on every streetcorner.

THAT is the major difference.
There are many smaller ones.... MANY.