| Huey Long once said that if fascism came to America, it would be called "Americanism."
The problem is in defining fascism. It is NOT a conservative movement. On the contrary, fascists always call for programs and policies that are decidedly progressive in nature. It is NOT a millitary movement. Fascists tend to dislike the their country's professional millitary and either seek to supplant it with something like a people's millitia, or they place their allies in key positions in the millitary, so as to control. It is NOT a minority movement as it justifies its existence and power on the basis of it having majority support of the people. It is NOT a defender of capitalism, as it blames it for the miseries of people which fascism pledges to fix.
What it is IS, is a movement which seeks to use the power of the government to improve and better the lives of people through governemt action. It can certaily be racial and ethnic, as it often seeks to create a common bond with people along those lines. |