Politics: The Important Definition of Fascism

If you have ever heard the Trump administration being called fascist, then you might want to know what that actually means, in case you haven’t heard the definition of it already. You also might not have thought it was anything other than an insult. But while it can be an insult and used on Republican’ts like they love calling us socialist, ours has way more meaning.

Fascists are the type of people who would do harm to their own people without caring about any and all of the potential negative consequences. They would fire on their own people while going across the street to a church for a photo op. And that’s just one example from the Divided States of America. There have been far worse examples from other countries in recent history and even still now. We wouldn’t want to live in North Korea where they worship their leader who might not even still be alive now. All I know is that it could get worse here and probably will before the Trump administration is over. But how bad are things now versus the horrible past of fascism in other countries?

Let’s face it, fascism was way worse in the past than it might be now in any country. And any of it that might exist in America isn’t as bad or under such horrible affects as tons of other places where it is bad or used to be bad.

Indeed, it is possible that despite the frequent label that is given to the guy in the White House, maybe he isn’t as terrible as being fascist, despite being horrible in tons of other ways. I even read an article about that in Vox, but I’d argue that what I read of that hasn’t aged well since a lot of it is now outdated and thus contradicted by events that have since happened after it.

This blog isn’t meant to be news as too much of it is opinion based and it fails to meet a lot of what you’d expect from news so don’t go quoting me as if I’m news. But I’m still posting what I think are good things to share that are relevant in some way.

I’m losing focus of this blog post. Know that fascism occupied the worst of history when the Nazis in Germany took over and committed genocide against many people. But there can be the horrible threat of the worst form of government without it killing any people. It still has a way of total dictatorship taking over the country and dominating the people in some way.

The best example that I can think of relating to what fascism is like is the book and movie series called The Hunger Games. They were perfectly okay in this movie series to make children or others in various districts compete against each other for food. The government in that movie was free to beat their own citizens when they showed signs of protest. They fired on their own people in the hopes that it would cause division and turn people against each other.

Signs of fascism have been seeping in this country where Trump could “acquitted” by those of his sadly loyal followers who will excuse any and all of his behavior for what little good they see him doing or delude themselves into thinking that he’s doing. They want to follow his terrible orders of making his own problems, namely the Ukraine scandal, about Biden instead. There are people who just don’t have the sense to abandon these ways.

Well, I hope that this post had a point in the end. You can probably get better information on the terrible ways of fascism somewhere else. You’d probably rather be dead than fascist, but at least if you aren’t dead (like my pastor said), you could be able to fix the problem.