fascism is a lot more than just hitler and the nazi take on it. the mistake everyone makes when talking about politics in current time is using words defined a century ago under completely different conditions (that applies to all the -isms) and expecting it to apply exactly to today. even if america was run by bernie and was "socialist" it still would not resemble the USSR, for example. we live in a version of fascism currently - best described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianismBubba wrote: ↑Feb 26th, '21, 21:53I think you better provide your definition of fascism before continuing this conversation.asher2789 wrote: ↑Feb 26th, '21, 21:44using budget reconciliation to pass a minimum wage raise was bernie's idea. i love bernie, but it sounded like a bad plan from the start. what bernie should of done was create a bill raising the minimum wage, and then have manchin and probably all of the republicans on record saying theyre against americans having the right to make more than $7.25 an hour.Bubba wrote: ↑Feb 25th, '21, 20:54Ruling probably takes minimum wage hike out of Covid relief bill.asher2789 wrote: ↑Feb 24th, '21, 21:35Trump got whatever the hell trump wanted when he had both the house and senate. im tired of the excuses. i understand excuse making with a divided government, but it's time to crack the whip. the democrats need a mcconnell of their own, too many spineless wimps running the show.Bubba wrote: ↑Feb 22nd, '21, 22:15
You do realize that Biden has no power to either send checks on his own or order Congress to do anything so blaming Biden is silly. You also realize that the legislation to do these things takes time to write (they just finished a few days ago) and that Congress has its own legislative procedures it must follow, not to mention the constitutional requirement that money bills start in the House. And you must realize that the Senate is 50/50 and one Democratic Senator is against at least a portion of the bill as currently proposed. And, finally, you realize that nobody is going to get a $2,000 anyway; it’s $1,400. Just sayin...
Stay angry my friend.
https://apple.news/AYMI03dB4TjirI-OEa5E6fQ
also, $15 minimum wage is a joke. if it kept up with productivity / inflation / cost of living it since the 1970s it would be around ~$25 an hour now. why is it not? where do you think the 1% gets their $ from? EXPLOITING LEGALIZED WAGE THEFT! and us taxpayers foot the bill. walmart et al can pay starvation wages, because there's always food stamps and section 8 housing to keep their employees surviving on the bare minimum. funny how the "pro life" and "anti tax" crowd are also pro slave wage labor whining about how $15 an hour burger flippers are costing them an extra 20 cents for their big mac...
anyways, still pinning this on the democrats. can't wait for them to lose the house and the senate in 2022 and trump to be president again in 2024 - that appears to be their goal, or at least, the goal of their funders. buy both sides, and you always win! contrary to popular belief, i am anti-fascist, not a democrat, and both parties promote fascism. but the democrats have *diverse* fascism!
seriously, everyone should read through that wikipedia link and think really carefully about what its saying... and then try to tell me with a straight face that it's not exactly what is going on, regardless of if youre on team red or team blue... also, if any of this is ringing true to you, you should check out adam curtis' documentary film work.The book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012) by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco portrays inverted totalitarianism as a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics bests politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.
also, this is a great definition of how i see fascism: https://truthout.org/articles/no-actual ... ooks-like/
i bolded the dictatorship of the extreme right because there is no left wing party in this country. there is the center right - the democrats, with a few stragglers trying to make change from the inside and getting nowhere - and the extreme right, which is the republicans. anyone who wants to claim otherwise, re the democrats, is hopelessly brainwashed and clueless.The 1983 American Heritage Dictionary defined fascism as: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”Fascism originated in Italy, and Mussolini claims to have invented the word itself. It was actually his ghostwriter, Giovanni Gentile, who invented it and defined it in the Encyclopedia Italiana in this way: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
In other words, fascism is corporate government – a Libertarian’s wet dream. It’s a government in which the Atlas’s of industry are given free rein to control the economy, just how they’re regulated, how much they pay in taxes, how much they pay their workers.
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As we know, fascism was eventually defeated in World War 2. But just before the end of the war, with the fascists on the ropes, the Vice President of the United States at the time, Henry Wallace, penned an op-ed for the New York Times warning Americans about the creeping dangers of fascism – or corporate government.
He defined a fascist as, “those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.”