1930S FASCISM & OUR OWN FASCISM

Fascism By James_Veverka - 05/24/2012 - 2:28 pm ConcordMonitor Fascism is right wing, anti-liberal, traditionalist and belligerently nationalist. Fascism in the 1930s merged corporate and state power. Unions were crushed. Women were to fill their "natural gender roles". Contraception was banned. Family planning in Germany, Italy & Spain became illegal. In Spain, the fascists allied with Catholic "Opus Dei", German fascists took aim at anything not "real German": Non-German art, music, and culture would destroy Germany! Today's right wingers use the same tactics against those they don't consider "Real Americans". Beginning in 1933, Fascists raided and ransacked every gay bar, meeting house, or business, Arson was common. Pink lists were developed & 100,000 gays were arrested by the "IIS" or the Reich's "Office for the Combating of Homosexuality & Abortion". 15,000 died in camps. Anti-homosexuality, contraception & abortion! Until recently, American fascists were openly anti-Semitic and anti-minority. Altho' Fascist-Lite, American fascists embrace much of the same sentiments against immigrants, gays, women, family planning, intellectuals, the arts, and whatever isn't "real American". American fascists are corporatists, too. Our fascists, like Spain's Franco & Italy's Mussolini, let religious leaders influence them at the table. Functioning sociopaths, avaricious corporatists & religious fanatics undeniably rule the far right in the US.