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   Dycel said, 4 months ago

   And just like papa johns watch his sales drop through the floor.
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   Jase99 said, 4 months ago

   I’m sure he’ll have his supporters, just like the owner of Chick-fil-A does.
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   Mighty Mouse said, 4 months ago

   Gobsmacking ignorance to think that national healthcare is somehow wrong. I really look forward to the USA entering the 20th century and joining the rest of the world on looking after its citizens.
   Why such resistance to Mitt Romney’s proven system?
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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, 4 months ago

   @Mighty Mouse

   Probably since he turned on a platter and went against it himself.
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   Nos Nevets said, 4 months ago

   The label is inflammatory, but let’s talk substance instead of packaging.
   What did he say that was not true?
   What exactly is fascism, then?
   Compare and contrast a healthcare system under Fascism with Obamacare.
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   masterskrain said, 4 months ago

   @Nos Nevets

   Since you asked…

   Right Wing: Fascists are fervently against: Marxism, Socialism, Anarchism, Communism, Environmentalism; etc – in essence, they are against the progressive left in total, including moderate lefts (social democrats, etc). Fascism is an extreme right wing ideology, though it can be opportunistic.Nationalism: Fascism places a very strong emphasis on patriotism and nationalism. Criticism of the nation’s main ideals, especially war, is lambasted as unpatriotic at best, and treason at worst. State propaganda consistently broadcasts threats of attack, while justifying pre-emptive war. Fascism invariably seeks to instill in its people the warrior mentality: to always be vigilant, wary of strangers and suspicious of foreigners.Hierarchy: Fascist society is ruled by a righteous leader, who is supported by an elite secret vanguard of capitalists. Hierarchy is prevalent throughout all aspects of society – every street, every workplace, every school, will have its local Hitler, part police-informer, part bureaucrat – and society is prepared for war at all times. The absolute power of the social hierarchy prevails over everything, and thus a totalitarian society is formed. Representative government is acceptable only if it can be controlled and regulated, direct democracy (e.g. Communism) is the greatest of all crimes. Any who oppose the social hierarchy of fascism will be imprisoned or executed.Anti-equality: Fascism loathes the principles of economic equality and disdains equality between immigrant and citizen. Some forms of fascism extend the fight against equality into other areas: gender, sexual, minority or religious rights, for example.Religious: Fascism contains a strong amount of reactionary religious beliefs, harking back to times when religion was strict, potent, and pure. Nearly all Fascist societies are Christian, and are supported by Catholic and Protestant churches.Capitalist: Fascism does not require revolution to exist in capitalist society: fascists can be elected into office (though their disdain for elections usually means manipulation of the electoral system). They view parliamentary and congressional systems of government to be inefficient and weak, and will do their best to minimize its power over their policy agenda. Fascism exhibits the worst kind of capitalism where corporate power is absolute, and all vestiges of workers’ rights are destroyed.War: Fascism is capitalism at the stage of impotent imperialism. War can create markets that would not otherwise exist by wreaking massive devastation on a society, which then requires reconstruction! Fascism can thus “liberate” the survivors, provide huge loans to that society so fascist corporations can begin the process of rebuilding.Voluntarist Ideology: Fascism adopts a certain kind of “voluntarism;” they believe that an act of will, if sufficiently powerful, can make something true. Thus all sorts of ideas about racial inferiority, historical destiny, even physical science, are supported by means of violence, in the belief that they can be made true. It is this sense that Fascism is subjectivist.Anti-Modern: Fascism loathes all kinds of modernism, especially creativity in the arts, whether acting as a mirror for life (where it does not conform to the Fascist ideal), or expressing deviant or innovative points of view. Fascism invariably burns books and victimises artists, and artists which do not promote the fascists ideals are seen as “decadent.” Fascism is hostile to broad learning and interest in other cultures, since such pursuits threaten the dominance of fascist myths. The peddling of conspiracy theories is usually substituted for the objective study of history.³⁴
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   masterskrain said, 4 months ago

   @

   Don’t like that one??
   Try this definition!
   No matter how you define it, it sure sounds like the Republican party 2000-2008!!

   Fascism is a set of ideologies and practices that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. Fascist nationalism is reactionary in that it entails implacable hostility to socialism and feminism, for they are seen as prioritizing class or gender rather than nation. This is why fascism is a movement of the extreme right. Fascism is also a movement of the radical right because the defeat of socialism and feminism and the creation of the mobilized nation are held to depend upon the advent to power of a new elite acting in the name of the people, headed by a charismatic leader, and embodied in a mass, militarized party. Fascists are pushed towards conservatism by common hatred of socialism and feminism, but are prepared to override conservative interests – family, property, religion, the universities, the civil service – where the interests of the nation are considered to require it. Fascist radicalism also derives from a desire to assuage discontent by accepting specific demands of the labour and women’s movements, so long as these demands accord with the national priority. Fascists seek to ensure the harmonization of workers’ and women’s interests with those of the nation by mobilizing them within special sections of the party and/or within a corporate system. Access to these organizations and to the benefits they confer upon members depends on the individual’s national, political, and/or racial characteristics. All aspects of fascist policy are suffused with ultranationalism.
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   mikefive said, 4 months ago

   @masterskrain

   I very much enjoyed your post but must take issue with you on your aside about communism. Communism as an example of direct democracy only exists in the idealism of theory. I know of no examples of successful, sustainable communistic communities. Communism just doesn’t seem to be compatible with the human psyche. It deteriorates into sloth by some and dominance by others thereby destroying the ideal.
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   ODon said, 4 months ago

   @mikefive

   For an example of communism look at the something like… the Catholic church.
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    brykard said, 4 months ago

    No matter how you put it, facisim goes against every idea that founded this country. Valuing the group over the individual. If everyone pulls his or her own weight, the country is better as a whole. Facisim allows the slackers to survive on the backs of those who produce. When the USA becomes a facisist state, we are no longer “from many, one”, we are just “one”.
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    masterskrain said, 4 months ago

    @mikefive

    Go to Wikipedia “Definitions of Fascism”
    That’s where these came from.
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    mikefive said, 4 months ago

    @

    “You’re an idiot.”
    ♦
    1.
    Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person.
    2.
    Psychology . (no longer in technical use; considered offensive) a person of the lowest order in a former and discarded classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
    ♦
    I see nothing in masterskrain’s post that would illicit the response of “Your and idiot”. It is simply an historically verifiable treatise on Fascism.
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    mikefive said, 4 months ago

    @ODon

    You really need to look up the definition of communism. The Catholic church is a far cry from the ideal of communism.
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    lonecat said, 4 months ago

    The German health insurance system began in 1883.
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    Ketira shena Pretarasedrin said, 4 months ago

    @Mr. King

    Thanks for the links! My favorite part out of the whole thing is what FDR said to Congress.
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