Is the United states headed for fascism?

Question

By that I mean; power concentrated in the hands of corporations not the government.

Or are we already there?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7260.htm

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini

If you had clicked the link you wouldn't have had to post that stupid answer.

Old scout --^

Answer 1

I concur with Boxy Brown... We are already there. (We've ALWAYS been there for that matter.) I say this for the following reasons:

1) The strange thing about capitalism is that it defeats it's purpose- by allowing big business to thrive and succeed to the point that it dominates everything and everyone- and allows corporations and the wealthy [the master class] to rule.

2) While those in power constitute a smaller segment of our society, the master class has always held the wealth and control of all our crucial systems (law, government, manufacturing, finance, etc...) from the beginning.

3) We meet all of the 14 Points of fascism- http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm (I know the article you posted includes a link to the 14 points, but I just thought I'd go ahead and post another link in case no one read far enough to see the link in the article.)


"If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag." --Huey Long

"We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order." --Adolph Hitler

"You don't need a totalitarian dictatorship like Hitler's to get by with murder ... you can do it in a democracy as long as the Congress and the people Congress is supposed to represent don't give a damn." --William Shirer, author, 1973

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. " --Adolph HItler

"Several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. " --Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy, 1983

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them." --Michael Parenti, author


How appropriate is THIS?.... http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=13857

Answer 2

No, fascism is unquestionably opposite to our founding concepts. The founding fathers wanted limits to state skill and an particularly loose nationwide solidarity. They strongly believed contained in the civil liberties that fascists oftentimes weigh down. initially, the founders did not trust that the US even mandatory a status military. They were obviously adverse to militarism. As liberals, u . s .'s founders believed in man or woman freedom and were surprisingly suspicious reliable, unchecked correct governments. consequently they created a gadget of three branches of authorities with one and all checking the skill excesses of the others. Fascism is the option of this, it concentrates skill contained in the fingers of one individual or possibly, at maximum, some human beings, and it stuffs out man or woman freedoms.

Answer 3

Good question! The United States is full of bs not all of us that live here but the one's who running it look at the prison systems how a person who never been in trouble sold a pound of weed can get raped and murdered doesn't seem right. why do the even pay prison guards they bet on the fights and we are not doing nothing to change this!!

Answer 4

Check out Google's Freedom to Fascism, and Money Makers vidoes. They have all the answers that you'll need. They are pretty length though, so I suggest you grab some popcorn.

Answer 5

Yes! Yes! and more Yes!

I mean the prison industry did under go "privatization" (largest prison industry in the world if I'm correct)

That's part why jobs are getting outsourced to places like China and India

Answer 6

mmmm, I want to say no but the way our government is allowing these corporations to control them, I would have to say yes.

Answer 7

Heading! we already there.

Answer 8

I suggest you take a Political Science class-101 and learn the definition of the word. We are not a fascist state. So
Kwitcherbellyakin!

Answer 9

We are already there

Answer 10

I think we are already there.