Is America headed towards Fascism?

[hayesc0]

Trump is praising dictators like Duerte and Kim Jong Un. Calling the media "the greatest enemy of the people". Seperating children from immigrant families and putting them into camps. Letting police run wild without accountability. At war with the government and the American public. In collusion with foreign powers that have been trying to undermine American Democracy for decades. Taking millions and possibly billions in dirty money. How is he not a fascist? The White House hasn't had a Press Conference since MONDAY!

Seriously what the hell is it going to take to wake people up and yo I aint trying to be buzzkill or negative nancy or fearmonger but America has sunken down the depths of so many levels of fascism its mindblowing!

Agreed shyt is scary I've legit thought about moving to Canada you know who Trumps coming for next

 

[thekingsmen]

You are 20 years late. Facism has existed in the US for decades, kats like you are just noticing now.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Bump

 

[Patrick Kane]

Y’all there now

 

[Unknown Poster]

“Never again means close the camps”: Jews protest ICE across the country

Everything We Know About the Inhumane Conditions at Migrant Detention Camps

https://psmag.com/ideas/yes-trumps-detention-centers-are-concentration-camps

Y’all there now

Without a doubt...


There are concentration camps in America in 2019.

Nuf said.

 

[Peter Popoff]

Hillary is not going to be the next president.

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/rudy...s-on-u-s-soil-until-obama-took-charge.454722/

This pretty much tells us that Trump is being set up to be the next President.

Rudy Giuliani was mayor of NYC during 9/11 and said there have been no terrorist attacks on US soil before Obama took office. TODAY.

He basically admitted it was an inside job.

He has unofficially endorsed Trump.

People haven't been paying attention...I have, this has been years in the making.

Yea, I'm getting a passport and leaving. fukk this country already but God forbid this dikkwad gets reelected.

 

[null]

Permanent ban bet?

 

[Brosef]

Say what you want brehs and brehettes but white america wanted to preserve white supremacy and elected Hitler 2.0

Trump is now in control of the most powerful country in the world with over 300 military bases globally, 25,000+ nuclear warheads, a prison industrial complex that holds more prisoners than anywhere in the world, and a military that spends TRILLIONS of dollars.

America is now officially a fascist country.

Don't think so?

Look at this list.

The 14 defining Characteristics Of Fascism

14/14

 

[dterpsss]

Permanent ban bet?

 

[dterpsss]

Hilarious

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

#cutthecheck #tangibles #maga

 

[Unknown Poster]

 

[Micky Mikey]

 

[Wildhundreds]

But democrats don't understand why some CACs stockpile weapons.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Historian: Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis resembles Hitler more than FDR

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In times of crisis, effective leadership is more crucial than ever. As President Trump struggles with the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, including the filing of more than ten million new unemployment claims in late March and crucial shortages of equipment like effective masks and ventilators, the ways other leaders responded to the Great Depression offer lessons both inspirational and cautionary for the present. Although Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler operated in two very different political cultures, their first 100 days in power offer a sobering reminder of the consequences of decisions pursued by leaders in crisis.

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By late 1932, the Depression was several years old. One of every four workers in the USA was unemployed, in Germany one of every three. But in early 1933 Hitler and then FDR came to power, both remaining in office until they died in 1945. Historian Robert Dallek insists that FDR’s First Inaugural Address of March 4, 1933 displayed “a masterful use of language to ease current fears and encourage positive thinking about the future.” The new president declared, “This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.” And he indicated that he would ask Congress to convene in a special session to act upon his proposals.

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Following the speech he proceeded, in the words of historian David Kennedy, “to act with spectacular vigor.” For advice he relied on a wide variety of sources, including some in academia. By the time Congress’s special session ended on June 16, he “had sent fifteen messages to Congress and had in turn signed fifteen bills into law.”

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Among other results, these actions guaranteed bank deposits (earlier bank defaults had left depositors poorer than ever), set up a national relief system, aided farmers, and created jobs through such new programs as the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC employed hundreds of thousands of young men (more than three million in the next decade) to work on conservation and beautification projects in such areas as national parks. “No less important,” writes Kennedy, “the spirit of the country, so discouraged by four years of economic devastation, had been infused with Roosevelt’s own contagious optimism and hope.”


Aiding FDR were his interactions with the media and public. On 8 March he held a press conference. Dallek writes, “ His engaging manner routinely disarmed the journalists, and as early as the end of the first conference, in an unprecedented expression of appreciation for his effectiveness in drawing the country back from the brink of disaster and the civility he showed the press, the reporters applauded his performance.” To continue interacting with the press, he meet with them regularly, holding 80 more press conferences during the remainder of 1933–far more in his first year than any subsequent president.


On March 12, FDR spoke on the radio for about twenty minutes in the first of his more than 300 presidential fireside chats. Some 60 million Americans, about half of the country’s population, listened in–historian Jill Lepore has written that during his subsequent summertime fireside chats, “people said that . . . you could walk down a city street, past the open windows of houses and cars, and not miss a word.” She adds that “he spoke on the radio with an easy intimacy and a ready charm, coming across as knowledgeable, patient, kind-hearted, and firm of purpose.”



For the rest of his first presidential term, FDR continued in a like manner with his New Deal policies. The results of the 1936 presidential election—FDR won 46 out of 48 states–testify to the citizens’ approval.


Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany at the end of January 1933, a little over a month before FDR became president. Although, unlike Roosevelt, he at first had to contend with another executive authority, President Paul von Hindenburg, it was Hitler who dominated. Historian Peter Fritzsche’s new book, Hitler’s First Hundred Days, provides a timely analysis of that period, most of which occurred concurrently to FDR’s first Hundred Days.


Prior to the Great Depression Hitler’s Nazi Party had been a small one. In the summer elections of 1932, however, it won 230 out of 608 seats, making them by far the largest of many parties in the Reichstag. Although the miseries of the Depression, certainly helped the Nazis’ rise, Fritzsche stresses other factors which aided them. For example, he often quotes letters of Elisabeth Gebensleben, wife of a conservative deputy mayor in a Saxon town. Fritzsche states that “the crowds of unemployed Communists who gathered in city streets . . . frightened Elisabeth most, and “middle-class Germans shared . . . [her] fears.” By 1932, she had concluded that “only Hitler’s National Socialists could protect Germany from the Communists.”



Fritzsche also indicates that Hitler and the Nazis “mined the recent past in a different way.” They emphasized an idealized pure German community and depicted the Weimar Republic, established in 1918, as an alien institution. Many Germans accepted their views on “community, nation, and race” and their methods of making Germany great again.


Fritzsche further points out “the Nazis resolved the paradox of promoting national unity by dividing the country. They did so by promulgating a binary worldview,” a we-vs-they approach: “pitting patriotic Germans against subversive Communists, Aryans against Jews, the healthy against the sick, the Third Reich against the rest of the world.”



In late February, Hitler blamed a Reichstag-building fire on German communists and convinced Hindenburg to sign an emergency decree, supposedly to protect Germany against communist violence. It indefinitely suspended due process of law, while also serving as an excuse to persecute communists. In Reichstag elections in early March 1933, the Nazi vote increased to 44 percent of the total. The communist vote declined, and none of their deputies, fearing arrest, took their seats in the new Reichstag. Soon afterward, Hitler established a new Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Later that month, using threats and promises, Hitler convinced Reichstag deputies to agree to the Enabling Act, which transferred legislative power to Hitler and his cabinet and allowed him to suspend parts of the Weimar constitution. In addition, the Nazis appointed officials who helped them take over federal states like Prussia and Bavaria, as well as local governments.


Furthermore, as Fritzsche writes, the Nazis “dismantled the trade unions, coordinated many of the institutions of civic life, and promulgated laws denying German Jews equal rights as citizens.” On May 10, the 101st day of Hitler’s chancellorship, Nazi students organized the burning of “unpatriotic” books. The fact that German unemployment eventually began declining, partly as a result of German rearmament, concerns Fritzsche less than the motives of Hitler and his supporters.


Fritzsche succinctly explained the contrast between FDR and Hitler in an interview: