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Early Warning Signs of Fascism (Original Post) DFW Jun 2018 OP
K&R. All of it. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #1
A great big K&R! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2018 #2
Xenophobia too. Lionel Mandrake Jun 2018 #3
OMG OMG OMG OMG donkeypoofed Jun 2018 #4
Get out and vote this november onetexan Jun 2018 #5
Got that right! DFW Jun 2018 #8
Check, check, check, check, check, check, check..... Laffy Kat Jun 2018 #6
KnR Hekate Jun 2018 #7
The problem is the media doesn't care, they love this freak show regardless if its textbook fascism Snake Plissken Jun 2018 #9
K&R CentralMass Jun 2018 #10
It's frightening. NY_20th Jun 2018 #11
Yep. dalton99a Jun 2018 #12
You should read "Fascism; a warning" by Madeleine Albright. zanana1 Jun 2018 #13

Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)
3. Xenophobia too.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:55 AM
Jun 2018

Hatred of foreigners could be added to the list. Let's see, who do we know who exhibits all these symptoms of fascism?

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
4. OMG OMG OMG OMG
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:56 AM
Jun 2018

I thought we were just at Stage 4 of Genocide: 'Dehumanizing your target'

He has done this by calling certain races (and yes, black and hispanic people, I'm afraid it's you , and all women in general), by awful demeaning names and doing demeaning things to them. It's so stark to see it in print like that!

It's here; Fascism OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

DFW

(54,403 posts)
8. Got that right!
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 04:03 AM
Jun 2018

It's the only thing that will save us. The only way to overcome Republican electoral fraud is a wave of Democratic voters so overwhelming that even their little fraudulent schemes can't work to throw the election their way.

Laffy Kat

(16,383 posts)
6. Check, check, check, check, check, check, check.....
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:29 AM
Jun 2018

Check, check, check, check, check, check, check.

Oh, look: 14 out of 14.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
9. The problem is the media doesn't care, they love this freak show regardless if its textbook fascism
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:38 AM
Jun 2018

Not only are they primarily interested in using Trump's dysfunctional behavior to drive ratings, but they continue to play the false equivalency nonsense where they give 50% of there coverage to the 99.9999% of evil this administration creates and the other 50% to the 0.0001% of the time they do something positive.

zanana1

(6,122 posts)
13. You should read "Fascism; a warning" by Madeleine Albright.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 08:57 AM
Jun 2018

She explains how the beginnings of fascism seem benign, then gain in intensity (the frog in the saucepan analogy). She takes the reader through the history of the 20th century's fascist states and hints about the Trump administration. She knows what she's talking about.

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