Time to post again the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

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30. "Must America Go Fascist?"

"Our conclusion from the available data on basic social trends in the United States is to the effect that the discernible drift is at present in the direction of fascism, although it has not yet accelerated to a speed that suggests inevitability. There exists no adequate organization of anti-fascist forces which would seem to be strong enough to check this drift. The uniqueness of American institutions will not alone prevent a coalescence of forces that may ultimately welcome a fascist attempt to solve the problem of the continuing social crisis; only organization of opposing forces can prevent it. Those who believe that present tendencies will bear watching should not be regarded as conjuring up in imagination a non-existent peril."

--- Matthews, J. B. And R. E. Shallcross. “Must America Go Fascist?” Harper’s Magazine 169 (June 1934), p. 15

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-- George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 (frequently paraphrased and/or misquoted.)