Fascists are a collectivist political organization. They favor gun control, euthanasia, abortion, nationalization of industry, and high welfare taxes, using Adoplh Hitler's Germany as the basis for this definition. In what way does this make people who live in the U.S. and 1) want individual gun ownership to be legal 2) are pro life 3)favor private enterprise & economic freedom over collectivization and 4) don't favore economic levelling in the form of taxes, fascist?
It would seem that everything conservatives get bashed for is exactly the opposite of fascism as defined by any source available.
2007-01-26 02:02:24 · 12 answers · asked by ian_eadgbe 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Okay- I obviously assumed that more intelligent people would answer this question. I'm not even going to debate tho foolish (yeah, I said it) people who think that allowing Christians to say "Merry Christmas" is restriction freedom of religion or speech. I'm not going to talk about how only a certified lunatic or someone who intentionally ignores the facts would believe that the U.S. government is racist or ethnocentric. I'm not going to yell at the people who think the Vietnam draft dodgers were anything but cowards. The F**CKING question is, are conservatives more pro a STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT including ECONOMIC COLLECTIVISM- not a company government that does what it's supposed to to criminals- or are leftists? And yes, Aryans could own guns in Hitler's Germany- but thay had to be REGISTERED, which is gun control. Please, on the question.
2007-01-26 02:46:06 · update #1
I think you probably know the answer to this one. Fascists' have been strongly identified with preferring the 'white race' over all others. I think since the Republican party pursued the so-called 'Southern Strategy' in the middle of the last century by attempting (successfully) to appeal to southern whites, many associate the Republicans with anti-minority and anti-immigrant ideas.
2007-01-26 02:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by mu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The usual interpretation of 'Facist' is a government that believes in rule through force, or strength, and is usually accompanied with the removal of individual rights and a rise of hyper-nationalism.
- You are ignoring other rights like freedom of speach, of religion, to vote, and of habeous corpus (legal rights). All of these are the first rights to be restricted under a facist government.
- The Nazis did not impose gun control. It was only against the law for non-Arians to own guns. This is not the same thing as gun control supported by most Liberals.
- The Nazi's did not support abortion for Arian women. They performed abortions on Jews, Poles, and other minorities only to 'maintain racial purity'. This is not the same as the right to choose. (If you cannot see the difference, then there is something VERY wrong with you).
- The Nazis did not support the nationalization of industry any more than any other government in a time of war. If anything, their standard practice was to confiscate Jewish owned businesses and then give or sell them off to 'pure Germans'.
- Liberals believe in Democracy in the form laid out by the American founding fathers. A Democracy that is secular and focuses on equal and individual rights.
- Conservatives, especially Neoconservatives, have many things in common with Fascism:
- Hyper-nationalism
- Scapegoating and using war to control the population
- Use of propaganda
- Use of religion in politics
- Restriction of rights
2007-01-26 02:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by Wundt 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-05-24 01:46:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fascists were ethnocentric hence the whole WW2 thing. Their Governmental perfection aside they hated everyone but them selves
2007-01-26 02:11:23 · answer #4 · answered by izsailor 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You forgot freedom of speech too. When Jim Gilchrist was invited to speak at Columbia U,he was attacked by the left.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/76890.html
2007-01-26 02:30:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
14 POINTS OF FASCISM
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5. Rampant sexism
6. A controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent elections
Sounds like a republican to me.
2007-01-26 02:15:01 · answer #6 · answered by sydb1967 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Liberals use that word yet they apparently have no clue what it is. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
I was called a fascist bitc* last year by two gay men because of my conservative beliefs (my sticker and magnets on my car) and called me a brown people killer (meaning terrorists). All this happened in a store in front of my 6 yr old daughter. She was terrified of those freaks after that.
2007-01-26 02:17:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, no, no, no, no, no! You left out the part of extreme nationalism, and authoritarian government, two very important staples of fascism.
2007-01-26 02:12:22 · answer #8 · answered by asmith1022_2006 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This kind of rhetoric is counter productive. And I'm a dem/lib.
2007-01-26 02:12:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You've got a great point, but those who call conservatives "fascist" are so narrow-minded that even the truth won't change their minds.
2007-01-26 02:09:34 · answer #10 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋