Does this sound fascist?

[salinen]

- Women relegated to only traditional family role.
- Homosexuals treated as abhorrent and treated as such.
- Individual expression suppressed.
- Intellectual pursuit suppressed.
- Knowledge other than the accepted knowledge is criticized.
- Strict allegiance to the highest rank.
- Punishment for any deviation.
- Rules must be obeyed in every aspect of life.
- Interpretation of those rules given to only high rank.
- The purposeful spread of the ideology by persuasion,intimidation, or force.
- The concept that the others are non-human or worse.
- The destruction of the other is championed and rewarded.

Who or what fits these conditions?

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Corporate Amerika

:P

[salinen]

3. Yes

there's more.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Hmmm, duh...I don't know George.

But I'm sure it's Clinton's fault somehow.

[salinen]

5. Everything is Clinton's fault

you're lazy Lenny.

[amber dog democrat]

4. The Handmaid's Tale

a description of Theocracy in America ( or Giliead ) .
I do not doubt there are fascist fundies who would create a talibornagain world here if given the chance

[salinen]

6. A+

[whistle]

7. Young republicans as well as young republican'ts....

...add "special privileges to certain segments of society while the remaining segments are expected to accept their imposed conditions and told that they can work their way out of them".

[KurtNYC]

8. I would add

- Laws written by multi-national corporations
- Voting apparatus owned by private corporations

[salinen]

11. good ones.

also, the willingness to destroy any cultural references to a past that is not acceptable to the regime.

[Zensea]

9. sounds more like pure totalitarianism to me

Fascism is something more specific in my view.

Every single point in your list would have applied during the Spanish Inquisition which was not a fascist state.

[salinen]

13. Well, that is where I was going

how about totalitarian theocracy?

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. You decide

http://cronus.com/fascism

[salinen]

14. DANG!

[ghostsofgiants]

16. ...

I was about to post something similar.

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

[salinen]

18. That's chilling

[Generic Other]

12. The Republican platform?

The NAZI agenda?
The Christian Coalition Pledge?
Bob Jones University Dorm rules?
The Abu Ghraib MP Handbook?

[salinen]

15. A+

[AntiFascist]

17. PNAC Smells of fascism....

and the rest of the world thinks so too.

www.pnac.info

www.newamericancentury.org