if Bernie gets the nom you won't support him

I could not care less what she or her corporate surrogates think.

http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm

Fourteen Defining
Characteristics Of Fascism
By Dr. Lawrence Britt
Source Free Inquiry.co
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Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

From Liberty Forum

thanks for pointing it out

I am acting a bit slow today

Nuance is hard, black and white thinking is easy.

Your reply evidences thought (as usual).

The deceptive half truth did not.

Clever they're not.

Thanks for all that you do to combat the obfuscation that is the Clinton campaign.

Telling, but sad.

As if you would not have attacked him with a different half truth if he had voted against women's health.



It's about smearing Sanders, no matter what. If deception by half truth is necessary to do that, no problem, right?

a crime bill precisely to force the hand of someone like Sanders--and Sanders was not the asshat who did the wrapping, either.

But, you knew that.

Or if some people just aren't it-getters.

Funny how they keep forgetting that part.

There were reasons, you see. Reasons!

But, playing the victim card also has a familiar, um, fragrance.

BTW, I see the full sentence seabeyond is on this thread . Cool.

why you posted it to begin with. Smearing with half truth talking points, so typical of the Clinton campaign must make you so proud of yourself.

*Note to jury: no one is being called a liar, pointing out the use of logical fallacies is not a personal attack. Thank you for serving.

But we get it, some people don't think that was a valid reason to vote for the bill.

Isn't that interesting?

Who was the asshat who made sure the bills were wrapped together?

The laws have been changed to unfairly target blacks and poor people who can't pay for decent lawyers.

You're welcome.

At the time he first voted on it. As it got revised, and increasingly made worse, he did not vote on it, so shut up!

It's a hard choice between the Trump and Sanders' supporters.

Either Democrat would defeat Trump.

but light years better than any of the Bushes- especially the one that Nader made possible.

Later.

Like I said it wasn't perfect but the economy has never been better in my lifetime. BSS only see the negative. Stoke that anger. That's what Bernie's campaign is based on.

Got that?

I'm no effing BernieBro or SandersSis or whatever noun du jour you folks seem to want pin on us.

People who can't stomach voting for the business-as-usual candidate again are not necessarily privileged. They just might be the folks, due to Third Way establishment policies, who have nothing left to lose.

... in the tweet and somehow got to look at a bunch of Hillary's tweets back to I don't know when. They were great!

Bill Curry (White House counselor to Pres. Clinton) dared to go there and he's spot on:

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_must_smash_the_clinton_machine_democratic_elites_and_the_media_sold_out_to_hillary_this_time_but_change_is_coming/

And tone deaf is one of them.

Welfare reform, as NAFTA was unfolding, to name a few...

Even now, I can't agree with her.

Bernie's not perfect, but he is 100% on the side of the 99%. That's why he's got my vote.

A really pathetic tweet from the campaign. 'Settle for Hillary' is now their official campaign slogan?