list of 14 early warning signs of fascism

[Altfish]

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

This list of 14 early warning signs of fascism is going viral for good reason

 

[Revoltingest]

Sounds like we've been facing looming fascism since even before we became a country.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

This list of 14 early warning signs of fascism is going viral for good reason

15) Fearmongering.
16) Appealing to the masses.

Yeah and I'm pretty sure that facists do not nessecarly have to be sexists or hate intellectuals.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

This list of 14 early warning signs of fascism is going viral for good reason

What does it mean when half of those apply to liberals and half to conservatives?

 

[Evie]

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

This list of 14 early warning signs of fascism is going viral for good reason

thank you. very informative

 

[Daemon Sophic]

What does it mean when half of those apply to liberals and half to conservatives?

Lets see then.....
Red will be conservatism.....blue is progressive ideology......purple is both. And No, I don't care about parties.

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1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections [counting 2 presidential popular count elections in the last 20 years, lost due to the electoral college, jerry-mandering, and external nations intervening on behalf of the US conservatives, not to mention an unconstitutional SCOTUS calling the count in one. And this doesn't even touch corporate money now equals "freedom of speech", and many local election jeery-mandering). vs?......?"millions of illegal voters" who have never actually happened?....

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So @Kilgore Trout; I'm not seeing much more than red here.

 

[Evie]

Sounds like we've been facing looming fascism since even before we became a country.

 

[Evie]

Lets see then.....
Red will be conservatism.....blue is progressive ideology......purple is both. And No, I don't care about parties.

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1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections [counting 2 presidential popular count elections in the last 20 years, lost due to the electoral college, jerry-mandering, and external nations intervening on behalf of the US conservatives, not to mention an unconstitutional SCOTUS calling the count in one. And this doesn't even touch corporate money now equals "freedom of speech", and many local election jeery-mandering). vs?......?"millions of illegal voters" who have never actually happened?....

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So @Kilgore Trout; I'm not seeing much more than red here.

You sound like you are not happy with Trump winning!!!

 

[Evie]

You sound like you are not happy with Trump winning!!!

Maybe I read it wrong

 

[Kilgore Trout]

So @Kilgore Trout; I'm not seeing much more than red here.

I find that people generally see what they're looking for.

 

[Evie]

So @Kilgore Trout; I'm not seeing much more than red here.[/QUOTE]

I find that people generally see what they're looking for.[/QUOTE]
Not looking for anything in particular. Just interested in views of others.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

So @Kilgore Trout; I'm not seeing much more than red here.

I find that people generally see what they're looking for.[/QUOTE]
Not looking for anything in particular. Just interested in views of others.[/QUOTE]

That's my view.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

You sound like you are not happy with Trump winning!!!

It's not about Trump in particular.
This is just a general leaning of the conservatives, with their elitist billionaire backers, controlling all aspects of government, and goving up more and more to the 0.01%. While the progressives are trying to resurrect the middle class.
Bombastic nationalism//fascism has become the norm for the right conservative zealots and billionaires. Fascism has always been a useful tool to wield over the narrow-minded, and those filled with fear.

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I find that people generally see what they're looking for.

I do too, including false equivalency; because it makes them feel like things are fair.

 

[icehorse]

Lets see then.....
Red will be conservatism.....blue is progressive ideology......purple is both. And No, I don't care about parties.

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1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections [counting 2 presidential popular count elections in the last 20 years, lost due to the electoral college, jerry-mandering, and external nations intervening on behalf of the US conservatives, not to mention an unconstitutional SCOTUS calling the count in one. And this doesn't even touch corporate money now equals "freedom of speech", and many local election jeery-mandering). vs?......?"millions of illegal voters" who have never actually happened?....

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So @Kilgore Trout; I'm not seeing much more than red here.

I fear "progressives" have been slipping a bit and now far too often are also guilty of:

2 - disdain for human rights
3 - id of enemies
6 - controlled mass media
15 - attacks on free speech
16 - unhealthy "guilt" concerning defending human rights and secularism

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I think I'm now a "centrist", and I see too many damaging extremists at every end of the spectrum.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I do too, including false equivalency; because it makes them feel like things are fair.

What's fair about being stuck between two idiot ideologies?

 

[Stevicus]

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

This list of 14 early warning signs of fascism is going viral for good reason

I would add to list an unhealthy and obsessive respect and/or worship of authority as being the primary warning sign of fascism. When people lose their willingness and/or ability to question authority, then that's one step closer to fascism.

 

[BSM1]

It's not about Trump in particular.
This is just a general leaning of the conservatives, with their elitist billionaire backers, controlling all aspects of government, and goving up more and more to the 0.01%. While the progressives are trying to resurrect the middle class.
Bombastic nationalism//fascism has become the norm for the right conservative zealots and billionaires. Fascism has always been a useful tool to wield over the narrow-minded, and those filled with fear.

I do too, including false equivalency; because it makes them feel like things are fair.

One word: George Soros.

 

[Revoltingest]

Lets see then.....
Red will be conservatism.....blue is progressive ideology......purple is both. And No, I don't care about parties.

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1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power protected
10. Labor [sic] power suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
12. Obsession with crime & punishment
13. Rampant cronyism & corruption
14. Fraudulent elections [counting 2 presidential popular count elections in the last 20 years, lost due to the electoral college, jerry-mandering, and external nations intervening on behalf of the US conservatives, not to mention an unconstitutional SCOTUS calling the count in one. And this doesn't even touch corporate money now equals "freedom of speech", and many local election jeery-mandering). vs?......?"millions of illegal voters" who have never actually happened?....

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So @Kilgore Trout; I'm not seeing much more than red here.

I see a whole lot more purple.

And the list is incomplete....
15) Disarm the citizenry.
16) Dynastic leadership succession.
17) Amend or suspend a constitution by fiat.

 

[David T]

Sounds like we've been facing looming fascism since even before we became a country.

Omg i actually did a spit my coffee out laugh right there. Btw i have been married talk about facism!!! And motorcycles and the GD cagers a bunch of car facists!!! Lol.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

I see a whole lot more purple.

And the list is incomplete....
15) Disarm the citizenry.
16) Dynastic leadership succession.
17) Amend or suspend a constitution by fiat.

You're right. These features have definitely been seen in other countires theoughout history. Luckily, so far they have not occurred here in the U.S.A.

Wellllll..........except for your dynastic #16, since we must count the Bushes along with their dynastic Saudi oil billionaire backers. Along with those filthy Adams and Harrisons. Bah!!

Question: Would you count nepotism as part of #16?