To celebrate the new year, I’m adding a collection of 14 new categories to this blog. The fourteen points of fascism first authored by Lauren Britt.
- Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
- Disdain for the importance of human rights.
- Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
- The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
- Rampant sexism.
- A controlled mass media.
- Obsession with national security.
- Religion and ruling elite tied together.
- Power of corporations protected.
- Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
- Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
- Obsession with crime and punishment.
- Rampant cronyism and corruption.
- Fraudulent elections.
Am I being alarmist? I dunno. Maybe. I do think that any society that puts themselves above the possibility of sliding into a dictatorship has already made the first step. ‘It could never happen here,’ is the way we dismiss the obvious steps. Power begets power. Anyway – a new taxonomy for cataloging things. Big hug!
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