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✅ contempt for democracy (single-party control, vote suppression)
✅ contempt for education, free speech, facts
✅ belief in natural rule and supremacy of the rich (taxpayer $$$ to billionaires)
✅ propaganda saturation thru privatization of schools, media
✅ radical belief that any means justifies the end
✅ separation of races
✅ Intertwined church and state
Famous fascists:
Mussolini (Italy), Dollfuss (Austria), Hitler (Germany), Trump (America)
lastlib
(28,609 posts)From Oxford Prof. Lawrence Britt
http://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm

Republicans meet Every. Single. One of them.
Other notable Fascists:
--Franco (Spain)
--Peron (Argentina)
--Suharto (Indonesia)
live love laugh
(16,483 posts)is for the shorter-attention-span reader.
lastlib
(28,609 posts)feed it to them in a trickle (as opposed to firehose), maybe they'll grasp it eventually.
betsuni
(29,292 posts)People who say obviously bullshit stupid things like, "It wasn't that Donal Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election" and that Trump voters aren't racists. BULLSHIT.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,796 posts)"a belief that any means justifies the end". Common in every Rethug I've ever known.
Thanks for posting that list. Our public needs to be aware of the dangers of creeping fascism.
KY........
live love laugh
(16,483 posts)Good point. I will add.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,796 posts)Same with evangelical Christians: It's OK to lie, cheat, steal and deceive so long as you bring in more member donors and right-wing voters.
They and Republicans make good bedfellows but to the detriment of America.
Thanks again.....
live love laugh
(16,483 posts)dlk
(13,340 posts)
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