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In his original article, "Fascism Anyone?", Laurence Britt (interview) compared the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet and identified 14 characteristics common to those fascist regimes. This page is a collection of news articles dating from the start of the Bush presidency divided into topics relating to each of the 14 points of fascism. Further analysis of American Fascism done by the POAC can be read here.

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
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It really doesn't feel any better to know I'm not the only person who sees this - or even who saw it coming - since our knowledge hasn't managed to stop, or even slow, the process. I keep hoping for the next election, even when I know the last 5 were stolen, which is another definition of insanity. But then, I saw it coming before Bush was not elected the first time, just from his (& his family's) behavior while he was in Texas. When I'm most depressed, since Dec 2000 has been like being a butterfly on a pin - even in the unlikely instance that vigorous fluttering pulls the country off the pin, the damage will be so bad, America as a more-or-less free democratic republic will die anyway. (Which will please Hogeye - it least until it happens and all his utopian ideals turn to chaos and starvation.)

Good article. It seems like I read that (or one very similar) some time ago on antiwar.com. Ayn Rand made the same point back in the 1960s - that the US was heading not toward socialism, but fascism.

Barbara, if you look at the breakup of the USSR, you may be less afraid of the coming breakup. Some of the resulting entities are doing much better than under the USSR, particularly the Baltic States. Others are worse, such as Georgia which was abjectly dependent of government contracts (the maker of cheap Soviet tractors.) Russia, the equivalent of the Washington DC area, is still as corrupt as hell. I foresee a similar pattern for the former USA. Ozarkia, being relatively non-dependent on central govt and having Wal-Mart and a lot of chickens, will probably do very well.

"Ozarkia" is busily poisoning the well/rivers/lakes/groundwater with all those chickens and both Wal-Mart and Tyson are dependent on federal roads to get their products out. There are agribiz people here - although most agribiz people are in SE AR - depending on subsidies (not that I approve of that, I don't). The Baltics were only part of the USSR from WWII, mostly as a protective barrier between Moscow and Germany (as was what is now western Russia and used to be eastern Poland) and have sea ports and resources that places like Georgia don't. Georgia was purely agrarian and the tractor factory was their only industry - USSR or USA, purely agrarian states are poorer than industrialized ones, and just as likely to be hurt by losing their markets.