Someone call Glenn Beck! I have something I'd love him to see!!!
I was bored and I looked up Fascism on Wikipedia.org
What I found was very very interesting....
Please read this and tell me....
Does this or does this not sound like the modern Republican Teaparty?
p.s. - I used caps on parts I found most relevant and removed the numbered sources throughout the article to make it easier to read!
FASCISM
Fascism (pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology. FASCISTS SEEK TO ORGANIZE A NATION ACCORDING TO CORPORATIST PERSPECTIVES, VALUES, AND SYSTEMS, INCLUDING THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AND THE ECONOMY. Fascism was originally founded by Italian national syndicalists in World War I who combined left-wing and right-wing political views, BUT IT GRAVITATED TO THE POLITICAL RIGHT in the early 1920s. Scholars generally consider fascism to be ON THE FAR RIGHT of the conventional left-right political spectrum.
Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, AND THE WILL AND ABILITY TO COMMIT VIOLENCE AND WAGE WAR IN ORDER TO KEEP THE NATION STRONG. They claim that culture is created by the collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, AND THUS THEY REJECT INDIVIDUALISM, Viewing the nation as an INTEGRATED COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY, they see PLURALISM AS A DYSFUNCTIONAL ASPECT OF SOCIETY, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety.
THEY ADVOCATE THE CREATION OF A SINGLE-PARTY STATE. Fascists REJECT AND RESIST THE AUTONOMY OF CULTURAL OR ETHIC GROUPS WHO ARE NOT CONSIDERED PART OF THE FASCISTS' NATION AND WHO REFUSE TO ASSIMILATE OR ARE UNABLE TO BE ASSIMILATED. THEY CONSIDER ATTEMPTS TO CREATE SUCH AUTONOMY AS AN AFFRONT AND A THREAT TO THE NATION. FASCIST GOVERNMENTS FORBID AND SUPPRESS OPPOSITION TO THE FASCIST STATE AND THE FASCIST MOVEMENT. THEY IDENTIFY ACTS OF WAR AS ACTIONS THAT CREATE NATIONAL REGENERATION, SPIRIT AND VITALITY.
Fascism REJECTS the concepts of egalitarianism, materialism, and RATIONALISM in favor of action, discipline, hierarchy, spirit, and WILL. THEY OPPOSE LIBERALISM (as a bourgeois movement) AND MARXISM (as a proletarian movement) FOR BEING EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC CLASS-BASED MOVEMENTS. Fascists present their ideology as that of an economically trans-class movement that promotes ending economic class conflict to secure national solidarity. THEY BELIEVE THAT ECONOMIC CLASSES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF PROPERLY GOVERNING A NATION, AND THAT A MERIT-BASED ELITE OF EXPERIENCED MILITARY PERSONS MUST RULE through regimenting a nation's forces of production and SECURING THE NATIONS INDEPENDENCE. FASCISM PERCIEVES CONSERVATISM AS PERTLY VALUABLE FOR ITS SUPPORT OF ORDER IN SOCIETY but disagrees with its typical opposition to change and modernization. Fascism presents itself as a solution to the perceived benefits and disadvantages of conservatism by advocating state-controlled modernization that promotes orderly change while resisting the dangers to order in society of pluralism and independent initiative.
Fascists tend to support a "third position" in economic policy, which they believe superior to both the RAMPANT INDIVIDUALISM OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE CAPITALISM and the severe control of state socialism. Italian Fascism and most other fascist movements PROMOTE A CORPORATIST ECONOMY whereby, in theory, representatives of capital and labour interest groups work together within sectoral corporations to create both harmonious labour relations and maximization of production that would serve the national interest. However other fascist movements and ideologies, such as Nazism, did not utilize this form of economy.
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I did not edit or change anything...
Go to wikipedia.org and type in "Fascism", it's all there!
Very Interesting Read!
Keep this for the next time a teapublican calls you, your party, or your president a fascist.
Great way to go on offense really quickly.