Why are the Dems so afraid of saying the "F" word: Fascism?

[poli-junkie]

Claiming that the Republicans in Congress are adhering and genuflecting to Trumpism -- why not just call it fascism?

Trumpism is a cute euphemism for Fascism.

[rocktivity]

1. Not only could I not agree more

but it would also open the door to pointing out neither "anti-fascist" nor "antifa" are four-letter words.


rocktivity

[tableturner]

2. K and R......

[pwb]

3. Things ending in ism tend negative..

We are generally against the ism's IMO.

[poli-junkie]

4. I'm just tired of not addressing the elephant in the room...

[PurgedVoter]

5. Because we are scared the Facists will shoot us.

Let us all be honest. There were a lot of us on Democratic Underground that kept our identities well hidden while Bush was president. Even then a lot of us feared a fascist mob might come for us. A lot of us were reluctant to come over to Democratic Underground 2.0 because we feared that our information might end up in the hands of brown shirts.

Of course we are scared of Republicans. A person that will throw a child in a cage and not even consider the evil in that act, would happily watch you and your entire family burn to death. They have been saying "The only good liberal is a dead liberal," all along and then when called on it, the closest thing to an apology you can get is, "Can't you take a joke?"

It isn't odd that we are careful what we say. If we said back to them what they say all the freaking time, the number of them going crazy and killing innocents would double or triple. Fox News would make sure of that.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Yep, and they're somewhat like the Viet Cong in...

... South Vietnam. You'll often never know who is the enemy closely among you, unless they fly a Confederate flag or whatever.

It's why I never put pro-Democratic bumper stickers on my car anymore. There's too many radicalized and violent right-wingers after decades of their hateful propaganda.

[Jedi Guy]

9. I've never been worried about that, and I'm still not worried about it.

During the Bush years, it was "liberals are gonna be rounded up into camps!" During the Obama years, the conservatives said "conservatives are gonna be rounded up into camps!" During the Trump years, it was back to "liberals are gonna be rounded up into camps!" These camps for political dissidents mysteriously failed to appear under any of those administrations. It's almost as if it's hyperbole, or something...

[poli-junkie]

6. Why not put 'em on the defensive for a change?

Call out the corruption; call out the misogyny; call out their anti-democratic policies, etc. etc.

[Poiuyt]

7. I usually say neo-fascist to account for the slight differences from Mussolini

Neo-Fascism

• Blind loyalty to a leader who’s really more of a national father figure;

• Belief that the leader is the state; belief that opposition to the leader is opposition to the state, and thus treason;

• Conviction (instilled or ignited by the leader) that the source of the problems facing the good wholesome ethnic majority is some Other or collection of Others who must be ostracized if not banished;

• Agreement that the rules and constraints of democratic order are sometimes useful and should be obeyed as long as one can obey them and win, because doing so confers a certain legitimacy, but if they have to be cast aside to hold power, then cast aside they must be.

• Ultranationalism,

• Racial supremacy,

• Populism,

• Authoritarianism,

• Nativism,

• Xenophobia and anti-immigration sentiment

• Opposition to liberal democracy

How is this different from today's Republican Party?