What Would Fascism Look Like in America Today?

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I don't think that's too uncommon. Viacom(amongst many others) pressures it's employees to vote Democrat.

I really don't even feel the necessity to respond to you because Fox News' history of lying and outright misleading people is so prevalent and so easy to find.

Yeah like NPR's firing of Juan Williams for bigotry... Seriously, there is a difference between getting your facts wrong and maliciously lieing about someone. If you do a news cast 24 hrs a day 7 days a week there is such a thing as making mistakes. If you are going to accuse them of maliciously lieing about people I suggest you have something to back it up.

I see. Any news station that has an agenda in opposition to your own is an evil propaganda machine, but Fox News occasionally 'makes mistakes' but is otherwise beyond reproach.

Guess that makes your viewpoint on the subject of 'lying' a balanced and objective one.

Such as?

It wasn't Fox News trying to make up a story that someone is a pedophile, it was an affiliate of CBS. Thankfully, they were stupid enough to forget to hang up their cellphone after leaving a message on an answering machine.

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If this was the result of a string of catastrophic 'mistakes' then Fox News is even less competent than I thought.

Except, perhaps, at persuading the gullible to believe in things which are untrue.

Would you like more examples?

Specifically the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. We have seen isolated incidents of political violence from them already, and their rhetoric is quite harsh against various outgroups. More realistically, the Republicans do not envision a fascist state, but they do envision one that is right-wing authoritarian. The conservative movement—at least its core—wants to roll back many worker, consumer, and environmental protections that have been in place for decades (in this respect, I am the conservative). The kind of thinking that values a small increase in shareholder value over the welfare of the most vulnerable is one of the core ills in America today, and conservative thought just doesn't see anything wrong with it. Policy that is good for short-term economic growth —maximizing capital gains—may long term screw this country over. These policies will result in a society that is increasingly controlled, owned although not by the state per se.

I can't say one is the more definite evil, but they're all negative trends coming from the Right. As an atheist, the scapegoating of religious minorities hits close to home; as a taxpayer and a person concerned with basic concepts of justice, I am dismayed by the Right's war drums. Attempts to fundamentally alter the democratic process directly would be harder to achieve (the senator one would require a constitutional amendment, after all), but it appears the Right wishes to quash dissent.

If anything, Fox is politically moderate and at least the most honest.
To the left, though, anyone or any entity not equally left is, ultra-conservative, a liar, hate monger, nazi, unfair, bigoted, racist, etc…………

When hedge fund managers skim $1 billion plus off the national surplus each I think that's more a misallocation of resources than anything benefiting so-called cripples.

Fox News is a propaganda outlet run by a former Nixon bagman and staffed with Republican politicians and they make up false stories all the time like the one about the New Black Panthers, supposedly protected by Obama when the incident in question was under the authority of a Bush official who didn't press charges.

Juan Williams did more than just express "honest feelings", he glorified his bigotry and declared that it was necessary and attempts to get people not to be bigoted will open the United States to attacks and to people to being killed. Failure to harass people deemed to guilty of glorifying their supposed religion of Evil through their dress sense, he said, is caused by Political Correctness that will cause "paralysis" before "truths" that these people plan to kill us all and that we, the victim paralysed, they will more easily kill us...

Oh, no Al-Qa'eda assailants have yet to attack in so-called Muslim garb, the standard operating procedure is for their operatives to appear as Western as possible.

To the extent that their income is from business (and not from government subsidies) they have earned their money legally. They are free to do (or not do) what they wish with their money (no your money, not our money but their money).

If you don't like their spending habits then don't do business with them.

ruveyn

Why do you assume these businessmen earn their money legally?

We're actually on the verge of Facism with the Healthcare Law. If the US Supreme Court doesn't rule it unconstitutional than the Federal Government can order you to buy products just because you're alive.

I'm guessing you're getting at the Tea Party.

Every one is innocent until proven guilty. Yes, there are businessmen who commit fraud. But most business people operate within the law. If I see that some one is rich, I do not assume that he acquired his wealth wrongfully or illegally. To come to that conclusion I want to see a conviction in court.

ruveyn