Members SexyAsianStud Posted September 7, 2020 Members Posted September 7, 2020 Have you seen this anywhere? A right-wing form of government that opposes liberal democracy, Marxism, socialism, and anarchism, and attempts to forge national unity under an autocratic leader with a totalitarian program advocating stability, law and order, and more and more centralized power, claiming all of this is necessary in order to defend the homeland from internal as well as external enemies, and to respond effectively to economic instability. The mobilization of a mass base through deliberately constructed fear and hatred as preparation for armed conflict and permanent war. An appeal to patriotic nationalism. The supremacy of military and police power, and the militarizing of all aspects of society. The agitation of “popular” movements in the streets, apparently spontaneous (but in reality well-funded and highly organized) based on bigotry, intolerance, and the threat of violence, all of it fueled by the demonization of targeted, distinct racial, religious, or gendered vulnerable populations and the creation of convenient sacrificial scapegoats who are repeatedly blamed for every social or economic problem people experience. Disdain for the arts, for intellectual life, for science, for reason and evidence, as well as deep contempt for the necessary back and forth of serious argument or discussion. The suppression of labor and the protection of corporate power. Rampant cronyism and corruption. Protectionist and interventionist economic policies as corporations are entangled with the state. You have? It's the textbook definition of fascism. stevenkesslar, Buddy2, lookin and 1 other 1 3 Quote
Members Pete1111 Posted September 10, 2020 Members Posted September 10, 2020 My understanding of the Putin model is how opposition eventually grows tired of resisting and arguing against the corrupt leader. Quit Facebook. My thought for the day. Quote
Members JKane Posted September 10, 2020 Members Posted September 10, 2020 11 hours ago, Pete1111 said: My understanding of the Putin model is how opposition eventually grows tired of resisting and arguing against the corrupt leader. It helps if you can routinely imprison, impoverish, or outright MURDER the opposition... Quote
Members Pete1111 Posted September 11, 2020 Members Posted September 11, 2020 8 hours ago, JKane said: It helps if you can routinely imprison, impoverish, or outright MURDER the opposition... Especially murdering journalists. Seems to be a trend. Quote
Members Buddy2 Posted September 15, 2020 Members Posted September 15, 2020 My young journalist friend, Christopher Allen, was killed in South Sudan three years ago. Before South Sudan, he wrote from Ukraine and, briefly, Turkey. Chris barely lasted a month in South Sudan, with a government quite unfriendly to journalists. I still keep in touch with his parents and his first cousins in Britain. I contribute to several journalist sites now. Chris also lived in Philadelphia, But I met him as a student at the University of Pennsylvania. He invited me to his college graduation. And I followed his advice to visit Bosnia and Croatia and Slovenia. lookin 1 Quote
Members Buddy2 Posted September 15, 2020 Members Posted September 15, 2020 Between his junior and senior year at the University of Pennsylvania he traveled from London to Turkey on his own. He was interested in my experience in Vietnam. And I was interested in his Independence while still keeping in contact with his parents. The day before he was killed in South Sudan, he talked to his parents who told him to please leave that very dangerous country. Quote
