Trial Runs for FASCISM being done NOW!

[Common Sense]

Hitler did his trials too! First, he gassed the mental retards and misfits in 1939 to see how folks would react. Some did, but folks believed in Eugenics which was a way to "cleanse the race" By 1943, there were hundreds of death camps and work camps.

Its the 'boiling frog syndrome'.Incermentalism. Slowly turn up the heat in the pot, so the frogs are unaware that they are being boiled to death. One bad act leads to another as people are desensitized to immoral acts. When you demonize people, you dehumanize them, making it easier to destroy the "useless eaters' and vermin.

Now don't say it isn't happening here, because IT IS!

That's out there. Trump is incompetent, a charlatan, a buffoon, a fear monger and a cheap hood...but if he brought on fascism, it would be accidental.

There's not much difference between claiming Trump is ushering in fascism than claiming there is a deep state conspiracy against him.

[Common Sense]

No, FDR is was an American for whom fascism was utterly alien, scary and had to be bombed out of existence.

Ok. Why is it that you implied the right went to war against fascism? Didn't all of America go to war?

The US (Dems and Reps) also fought wars (hot and cold) against communism.

[MisterVeritis]

There's not much difference between claiming Trump is ushering in fascism than claiming there is a deep state conspiracy against him.

Of course, there is. The first is a goofy falsehood. The second is true.

[Mister D]

I think there are dozens of valid political spectrums- I majored in poli-sci in undergrad.

I have repeatedly said that when I use the political spectrum, for ease of discussion it is

L=far left, total government control.

Lessen government control as you move right.

To zero government control at the extreme right.

I do not follow the Renaissance French model that most people follow today.

Regardless, fascism is alien to our political experience. Fascism happened in Europe between 1910s and 1945. Note tense.

[MisterVeritis]

Ok. Why is it that you implied the right went to war against fascism? Didn't all of America go to war?

The US (Dems and Reps) also fought wars (hot and cold) against communism.

Yor side always held a bit back. Fascism and Communism were often found to be a desirable path forward for Democrats.

Today the Democratic party embraces Karl Marx without using his name.

[Mister D]

Ok. Why is it that you implied the right went to war against fascism? Didn't all of America go to war?

The US (Dems and Reps) also fought wars (hot and cold) against communism.

The topic is the American right and it's supposed affinity with fascism. Was that a serious question? I fear it was.

Yes, they did. That's because Western liberals wouldn't tolerate competing systems.

[Peter1469]

That's out there. Trump is incompetent, a charlatan, a buffoon, a fear monger and a cheap hood...but if he brought on fascism, it would be accidental.

There's not much difference between claiming Trump is ushering in fascism than claiming there is a deep state conspiracy against him.

Not to defend Trump, who I did not vote for and never would since he claims to be a republican, but there is no doubt that there is a deep state. And that this deep state is not out to get Trump.

[Common Sense]

I think there are dozens of valid political spectrums- I majored in poli-sci in undergrad.

I have repeatedly said that when I use the political spectrum, for ease of discussion it is

L=far left, total government control.

Lessen government control as you move right.

To zero government control at the extreme right.

I do not follow the Renaissance French model that most people follow today.

So is the political spectrum innacurate?

What specific model do you follow?

[Peter1469]

Regardless, fascism is alien to our political experience. Fascism happened in Europe between 1910s and 1945. Note tense.

Some of that bled over to the US if you agree with Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.

[Mister D]

Not to defend Trump, who I did not vote for and never would since he claims to be a republican, but there is no doubt that there is a deep state. And that this deep state is not out to get Trump.

And the difference between this and claims of Trump's fascism is that "deep state" is at least plausible. The other is like saying you saw a Brontosaurus.