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1945 US government pamphlet on Facism nails it. We are there now. [View all]
Heather Cox Richardson posted this, but it was linked to googledrive, which makes me nervous. Here is another more public link. Well worth a review.
Link to tweet
Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political cultural and social life of the state.
[Aligns with the 7 mountains of xtian nationalism.]
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They maintain themselves in power by use of force, combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of "blood" and "race", by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security.
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The fascists solved unemployment by converting their nations into war machines. The unemployed were either conscripted into the army, or organized into labor battalions and put to work in war plants.
[ICE]
Deprived of their unions, the working people could be driven to work longer and harder, for less and less money, so those who subsidized and ran fascism could grow richer.
Nearly every word of this describes today's reality.
https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/1iixv3i/army_talk_orientation_fact_sheet_64_fascism_24/
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