Imo objectively and factually everyone is a fascist whether they admit it or not. Essentially everyone just wants their own way... If liberals had their way we would be living in Stalinist Russia or Maoist China. If conservatives had their way we would probably all be living in Nazi Germany or something similar. This is what I honestly genuinely believe anyways.
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Oh, good GOD! WHY do people have this fascination with misrepresenting this word these days to such an extremely absurd degree? Fascism is not simply about getting one's way!
FASCISM: A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race (Germany, not Italy) above the individual. It stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Fascism is not simply about being a dictator. And despite some similarities, the very big differences are exactly why nobody declares Hitler a communist or Stalin and Mao as fascists. They were all dictators, who employed totalitarian tactics, appreciated socialistic tools for society, within distinct socioeconomic and political systems.
- If Liberals had their way, we would be living in a Social Democrat's world. Social Democrats, by the way, opposed Hitler in Germany and opposed socialism in the Soviet Union and in Mao's China. For some more perspective, Stalin hated Atlee's Labor Party in Britain.
- If Conservatives had their way, we would be living in a socially regimented world, based on tradition, with corporate capitalism leading the way. The conservative German elite, by the way, opposed Hitler for his elimination of class distinction, which actually opposed the need for strict class structure found in Italian Fascism.
By simplifying these terms to such a degree, we misrepresent what the hell they even are.