Note. I shall be describing aspects of facism that are preswent in America. Just because I say they are present, does not necessarily mean I believe they are currently present as strongly as they were in facist Italy/Germany etc
Fascism (
/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2]
Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics.[3]
Indoctrination is already present. Fox news is a good example, it literally was set up to influence political opinion,
Forced physical education seems unlikely
Eugenics is already present
http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/2008/09/paying-poor-women-in-louisiana-not-to.html (Paying poor women to have their tubes tied)
http://newsone.com/nation/associatedpress3/n-c-may-pay-black-women-for-forced-sterilization/ (Black women had enforced sterilization in the 70's)
Fascists seek to purge forces, ideas, and systems deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration and produce their nation's rebirth based on commitment to the national community based on organic unity where individuals are bound together by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood.[4]
That's present, particularly focussing on the degeneration, although the decadence is present slightly.
Fascists believe that a nation requires strong leadership, singular collective identity,
Tough on crime/terrorism etc are always good ways to get votes in the USA
and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[5]
This one's a tough one. I would argue that that is describes USA pertty well, although Nazi Germany was very different in that they openly admitted that it was to strengthen the fatherland. USA by contrast at least claims that they are doing it to help others
Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the state.[6]
Hmm, another tough one. USA sure makes it hard to oppose the state, as compared to democracies like Australia, but they are a long way from forbidding or actively suppressing.
Fascists promote violence and war as actions that create national regeneration, spirit and vitality.[7]
‘the best way to revitalize the economy is war’ - G W Bush
Fascists view conflict as a fact of life that is responsible for all human progress.[8]
Hmm, conflict as a fact of life is definitely present, I doubt many would claim it is responsible for all human progress.
Fascists exalt militarism as providing positive transformation in society, in providing spiritual renovation, education, instilling of a will to dominate in people's character, and creating national comradeship through military service.[9]
That's a big tick
Fascists commonly utilize paramilitary organizations for violent attacks on political opponents, people whom they oppose, or overthrowing a political system.[10]
Nope
Fascism is anti-anarchist,
yes
yes
anti-conservative,
no
not to any huge degree
anti-individualist,
don't think so
Very
No, this is a big difference between USA and fascism, see the text at the bottom
, anti-bourgeois, and anti-proletarian.[11]
It is getting there for both in recent years.
and is typically, with a few exceptions, anti-clerical.
This is not the case at all.
Fascism occured when cunning and powerful politicians used feelings of patriotism in order to grant more powers to themselves. Eventually, they made it so that all loyalty was to the state, and ther ecould be no other loyalties. USA is radically different to this. The way that the USA's democractic capitalism will collapse (if it is going to at all) is due to an increasing concentration of wealth and power, not in the state, but in companies. The increasing gap between middle class and upper class income will set up an aristocracy - the only way to get power is to be rich, the only way to become rich is to belong to a rich family. The USA will see the state becoming less and less powerful, which is not Fascism at all.
