tNotMyPrez wrote:
1) F.A.S.C.I.S.M. - - If anyone doubts that Mr "t" has the potential to be an American Hitler and convert our country to fascist, please watch RICK STEVES FASCISM IN EUROPE. It airs semi-regularly on PBS stations. Simply search the title on tv-guide listings for your cable provider.
2) Watch "How Fox News and Right-Wing Media Brainwashed This Dad and Destroyed a Family | Opinions | NowThis" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/v4UOsPoPMjAWhich of these NAZI fascist actions and characteristics fit Trump or any other person or group?
*Do all you can to convince people to trust in the infallibility of the news so later it can be used to get the masses to do anything you want.
*Encourage and/or finance mobs to take to the streets engaging in threatening behavior, vandalism, looting, burning, and assaults while chanting slogans of hate.
*Pick a target for people to loudly revile and focus their hate on.
*Use political correctness to direct and control not only what people say, but eventually what they think.
*Encourage vigorous and even violent censorship of any competing, dissenting, and undesirable thought provoking ideas.
*Destroy historical symbols of the past. Especially any heroes.
*Provide free health care for all (until some are identified as undesirable and denied, and the undesirable list grows)
*Encourage abortions and sterilizations for those deemed less desirable.
*Free education controlled by the central government. The schools and youth groups used to indoctrinate the young.
*Using the entertainment industry to further the message of indoctrination.
Imposing draconian controls over businesses which dictate what business can exist. And approved businesses are told what product or service they can provide, what suppliers they must use, how much of the product they can or must produce, who they can or cannot hire, who they can sell the product or service to, how much if ant profit they can keep, and any portion of the business can be confiscated at any time for little to no reason. And still be required to pay taxes.
Encourage children and others to report any undesirable behavior of others to the authorities.
Praise for socialism in speeches and interviews and the promise that despite previous problems with socialism, the problems were due to not doing it right. But they know how to do it right.
[Often the top of many people's list is nationalism. But both the National Socialists and the patriots of England, France, and the USA rode a wave of nationalism. So it is not simply a fascist or NAZI characteristic.]