kraftiekortie wrote:
I would say we definitely "should be on the lookout."
But to say we're a "fascist" country at this moment is hyperbole, in my opinion.
And remember: "Fascist" with a capital "F" means, exclusively, the characteristics of the Mussolini regime in Italy from about 1922 to 1945. Mussolini's ideas are known as "Fascism."
I think fascism has become as loaded a term as capitalism, socialism, and communism. These words may have origins, but their meaning expands over history and popular perception. This causes profound confusion in arguments as people conflate other concepts with these terms beyond their original meanings.
You use a fair point about maintaining strict interpretation of words. Rather than asking "Is America becoming a fascist country," perhaps a better question is "Is America evolving towards being a unilateral, totalitarian ethnostate with theocratic tendencies?"
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