I've read the updated 14 Points of Fascism ( http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/669 ) and got to wondering: Are we really having a problem? Have all of these things been part of the society at the same time in our history? In other words, have we been through this before and come out okay? What happened if we did?
2007-01-10 01:30:20 · 9 answers · asked by bealzes_bud 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What I am looking for are arguments that support or refute the premise of the 14 points. I personally never excelled at history (although I have noticed the current War On (some) Drugs causes the exact same problems that Alcohol Prohibition did).
2007-01-10 02:02:07 · update #1
You might want to look at http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/110107jaywalking.htm before answering.
2007-01-11 07:41:44 · update #2
Yes we are on the wrong path and yes we have been through this before look at Vietnam and if you think coming out ok meaning after hundreds of thousands of young kids being killed in a foreign country fighting a war that could not be won is coming out ok then you need to think again or better yet go to your nearest VA hospital and ask some of the casualties from past wars.
2007-01-10 01:39:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You bet we have a problem. We have really been on the wrong path since Nixon too us off the gold standard.
But it was inevitable. History grinds forward and we have been on a path of destruction since 1776 because once the founding fathers were gone the path to corruption was open. The US will eventually lose its superpower status to China. why do we need to be the world's policeman. American soldiers will begin to be pulled back from around the world and stop dying in far off lands for dubious goals. Keep them at home to protect our interests here and leave the world to their own problems. They are not our problems until they bring them to our shore. No more foreign aid either, we can't afford it anymore. But we will survive as a people and in the long run will probably be better off. Bush will hopefully be gone after 2008 unless he pulls somekind of 3rd term coup based on national security needs. The only real danger will be that a democrat will become president with a democratic congress. That's how we got into this mess with Bush. When the same party controls both the executuve and legislative then we have problems. When they're too busy fighting each other we are better off. America will survive but we are going to go through some real growing pains to do so.
2007-01-10 09:48:12 · answer #2 · answered by John Galt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This article is a joke, but if you want a serious answer to this question, America is on a path of both right and wrong. It still seeks to encourage humanism, scientific and technological expansion, prosperity, etc. But like all powerful nations it struggles with issues of greed, over-consumption and so on. It is an enormous, complicated place facing extremely complex global and domestic issues every day.
I do think civil liberties have been eroding since the 80's in the US and it's disturbing, but it's still at the forefront of personal liberty. If you really are interested, do a little research on how things are done around the world. Even in the UK, where everyone pats themselves on the back for being liberal, the government has more power to spy on citizens and can detain their own citizens without an arrest or a speedy trial, something the US government can't do to US citizens.
2007-01-14 06:00:44 · answer #3 · answered by laurelandhearty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That list is a bunch of BS. The person who put that together started with the delusional premise that Bush was a fascist, then looked for any little point he could stretch to make the comparison.
The truth is that the US isn't anywhere near a fascist state, and has not grown closer to on under Bush, either.
Those 14 points have been refuted as the crap they are.
2007-01-10 09:42:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is on the right path.
As far as your 14 points. It is a very weak arguement at best.
I suggest you really do a study of Nazi Germany first. Rather than quote someone.
If you still want to stand by that bull I will come up with the rebuttable but today I have way too many important things to do than waste my time on that junk.
2007-01-10 09:40:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
America is paying the price for cultivating wrong people on account of its evil foreign policy. The onus is on America to cleanse the world of terrorists, created by itself.
2007-01-15 00:58:07 · answer #6 · answered by Kushal-Know All 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the USA on isn't even a path, it's just bush blindly rambling thru the woods hoping he can find a pool of water.
2007-01-10 09:39:57 · answer #7 · answered by The Twist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can only hope that we continue to choose leadership that keeps us on the right path.
2007-01-10 09:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by Culture Warrior 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look at our Leader then ask the question again....we have the blind leading the blind/dumb!
2007-01-10 09:39:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋