14 common features of fascism

Umberto Eco, an Italian philosopher, lists 14 common features of fascism. These are:

1. The cult of tradition
2. The rejection of modernism
3. The cult of action for action’s sake
4. Disagreement is treason
5. Fear of difference
6. Appeal to social frustration
7. The obsession with a plot
8. The enemy is both strong and weak
9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
10. Contempt for the weak
11. Everybody is educated to become a hero
12. Machismo and weaponry
13. Selective populism
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak

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The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
by Lawrence Britt:
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

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TexChik · F

Lawrence Britt? Never heard of him.

Only socialists call tradition a cult. Socialist despise tradition because it is contrary to their narratives. Socialists call everything that is contrary to their narratives a cult for that matter.

Socialists call Machismo weaponry because they dont have any. In retaliation they commit mass murders of children and unarmed people to feel macho. Then the collective blames lawful gun owners for the crimes of the socialist. Now that is a cult.

The enemy is both foreign and domestic.

For socialists, any disagreement with their narrative is treason. Hillary wants us all put into re-education camps.

Obsession with the plot? Socialists hate when their plans are exposed and call it a conspiracy theory until it becomes universally accepted as fact, then they no longer speak of it, like it never happened. Again, very cult like.

Socialists assume only they can decide what is right or just or modern. Socialists want transgender men going into public bathrooms with our daughters . They want then to be allowed to go into our schools without our permission and expose our children to their desires for their sexuality. Socialist modernism is their new name for perversion. We are criminals if we don't allow them to bugger our kids.

The Cult of action for action's sake? Like requiring an ID to vote, requiring legal residency to vote, requiring only one vote per registered voter, and requiring in person voting with all polls closing at 7 pm. In other words socialists dont like it when prior thought and actions are taken to prevent them from cheating in elections.

Everybody is educated to become a hero. Children are taught that freedom isn't free and that is must be protected and guarded . Socialist blue state HS grads cant read, write, or do math at the 9th grade level, but yet they graduate. They cant read or write cursive and they cant do fractions. It seems to a socialist that any kid that has goals and does what they need to do to achieve them is a hero. They dont like heroes.

Socialism should be considered a crime again.

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@TexChik In America we have a constitution which protects freedom of speech. We are free to have any opinions we want. We are free to vote for any candidate we want. It's a free country.

Socialism should be considered a crime again.

Only in a dictatorship would that be possible.

In America socialist exists alright: for corporations and the wealthy! They don't call it socialism, they call it bail-outs and subsidies. In America it's socialism for the wealthy and unregulated capitalism for everyone else.

BTW Many democrats and liberals served in the armed forces. it might be useful to remember that.

I say it again: Trump is a fascist, a megalomanic, and a conman. He has fooled you.

TexChik · F

@badminton The wealthy and the corporations are in power and destroying America.

I say again, you are full of socialist crap! You can't defeat him in the theater of ideas and your politics of personal destruction isnt working, your corrupt DOJ is interfering in the election process by continually charging Trump with nonsensical crimes while supporting prosecutors that will not prosecute any one else for anything. Its a sick joke.

Funny you want to hide behind the constitution when your ilk do everything they can to defile it. Typical socialist reaction to the facts.

RockerDad · MVIP

@TexChik it sounds like you consider anything to the left of George Bush to be a socialist.

TexChik · F

@RockerDad Bush was a moderate and a rino.

RockerDad · MVIP

@TexChik and this is a bad thing?

TexChik · F

@RockerDad Absolutely.