BushCo may be fascist, but it's counterproductive to label them as such. So, let's use the definition of fascism to find a better way of saying the same thing.
Bush is not fascist, not a Neocon, and certainly not conservative; he's a Corporate Socialist.
Let's face it, by FDR and Mussolini's definition, the U.S. has become a fascist country. But we can't use that word. Conventional wisdom views the holocaust as the primary feature of fascism, even though it was actually byproduct of Hitler's German fascism.
The Bush regime is many things, but it's not genocidal. So labeling the regime as fascist, no matter how accurate, is counterproductive and undermines our credibility.
Bush's goals, unlike Reagan's, are to increase the power, size, and reach of government and to hand over our tax dollars, our natural resources, and the execution of our government's power to a small community of international corporations.
That's socialism, funneled into the hands of a few corporations. The American Conservative magazine recognized this when it endorsed Kerry. Many conservatives from the Reagan era have spoken out against this. Former members of the Bush Cabinet have also spoken out about this.
From now on, every time I refer to Neocons I won't refer to them by their chosen name. They are now Corporate Socialists pushing for Corporate Socialism.
Please join me in this effort to re-brand the Neocons and the Bush regime.
Note: I googled this, and it's actually a fairly common concept, used in 2002 by Nader. I haven't seen it really applied as a mechanism to properly label the right wing of the Republican Party.
They are socialists, the bad kind.