Can a movement similar to fascism emerge in the US?

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HappySqurriel said:

sapphi_snake said:

Berlusconi? Sarkozy? I'm pretty sue they're both portrayed as rock starts. And don't Conservatives in the US worship Raegan?

Silvio Berlusconi and Forza Italia never really seemed particularly “Conservative” to me. Not that I follow Italian politics closely, but it seemed to me that the politics of Berlusconi were based more on populism and could range from being fairly centerist to extremely left depending on the mood of the public.

But Sarkozy could be seen as being a very charasmatic leader who is portrayed as a "rock-star" ...

With that said, if you investigated the portrayal of candidates and leaders in westen democracies over the past 25 years you would find that the number of leaders who are portrayed as "Rock Stars" on the left is probably 2 or 3 times as many as are on the right.

 

 

But, once again, my point wasn't "Who does it more" as much as simply that it is a problem. When you have a leader that people follow without questioning them you can end up in a place you probably didn't want to arrive at.

Wikipedia says that both Forza Italia and Berlusconi's new party, The People of Freedom, are centre-right parties.

 

Anyaway, you're right about it not being important "who does it more". Realistically, none of the leaders from Western countries that can be considered "rock stars" are anything close to the likes of Hitler. The conditions for the rise to power of a Hitler-like individual are just not there. Such individuals need economic turmoil and political instability to rise, essentially a country in ruins, and desperate people who aren't thinking logically. And if you wanna blame someone, you should blame the people, as they're the ones who gladly embrace such individuals (I blame people's obsessions with "messiah" figures).

Still, I don't really think you can accuse any dictator that has ever existed of being a "liberal" in any shape or form.