This is a tad out of context…in that…OAC just repeated the words of a person in the crowd who yelled this. It wasn’t her own words and IMO she was just trying to ratchet up the enthusiasm but repeated the wrong words from a dumb ass in the crowd to do it.
which makes it even worse since she is echoing the nimrodic pronouncements from the brainwashed crowd.
if she didnt espouse the same thoughts and attitudes she would not have amplified them
I disagree with just about everything that comes out of her mouth but when I saw the moment in the context it took place, I more thought about how stupid it was to repeat it, than my despisement if it actually originated from her.
Being a rich moron has a short shelf life.
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It was odd that she responded to a crowd member before she considered for a moment what she was repeating.
…and I can’t argue that. I’ve watched Trump do it a couple of times and thought…that wasn’t good.
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i understand. but whether she just heard it, or if it organically sprouted in that millennial college brainwashed brain of hers, she said it.
American liberalism (dating from FDR’s New Deal) is fascist.
FDR was a great admirer of Mussolini and based his New Deal on Mussolini’s fascist Italy.
“‘I don’t mind telling you in confidence,’ FDR remarked to a White House correspondent, ‘that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman’” (p. 31). Rexford Tugwell, a leading adviser to the president, had difficulty containing his enthusiasm for Mussolini’s program to modernize Italy: “It’s the cleanest … most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen. It makes me envious” (p. 32, quoting Tugwell).
Three New Deals: Why the Nazis and Fascists Loved FDR | David Gordon
Fascist economic policy calls for the private ownership of the means of production under strict governmental control.
That’s exactly what we have and have had since the 1930s.
AOC is a blind, horse toothed, hog who found an acorn on this one.
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“Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe”
htttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
does that describe us?
i agree business is still overburdened with regulation etc but i highly doubt thats why she thinks we’re fascist
I’m talking about the economic model of Fascism. A state can be fascist without the nationalism, dictatorship etc.
The New Deal, concludes Russell, “created an economic system that was virtually identical to the national economies established in Italy and Germany, and further consolidated power in the hands of the president.”[[3]]
not sure i agree to the degree this is taking place here even economically.
but again i dont think this is what aoc thinks. in this respect she wants more fascism. the fascism she (and her idiot audience) is talking about is the fact that trump is president, the economy is roaring, and people are getting wealthier, which she refers to as “amassing gold” because shes utterly stupid
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That is a good point.
Strict is open to interpretation especially with social media and internet commerce and the global tentacles of international business.
Small business gets by…Get too big and things change.
First we’ll need a mutually agreed definition of fascism.
That definition won’t do at all. It’s child-like.
It doesn’t have to be a dictatorship. Autocratic can be a party.
Like cupcake bakers?
Robert Paxton, a professor emeritus of social science at Columbia University in New York who is widely considered the father of fascism studies, defined fascism as “a form of political practice distinctive to the 20th century that arouses popular enthusiasm by sophisticated propaganda techniques for an anti-liberal, anti-socialist, violently exclusionary, expansionist nationalist agenda.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/57622-fascism.html
I disagree a bit in that it ignores evolution. Does it have to be expansionist for example?
Is there an element of nostalgia, a need to set back the clock?
Do they tie it to populism and complaints of the forgotten patriots?
Is globalism causing a rise in nationalism?
AOC’s statement makes perfect sense if you view it from the perspective of the original Antifa. Antifa was a originally a German Communist-lead group that was funded by Stalinist Russia in the early 1930s. Their main target was the ruling centralist Social Democratic Party of Germany, and they occasionally cooperated with the Nazis in that objective.
Based on this historical perspective, anything less than a Communist dictatorship is “fascist”.
Yes, it does.
