Sigh: "His Fascist Ministerial regime in the meantime, has done EVERYTHING in their collective power thus far to restrict Access to Information requests... I won't even go into your lovely hand book on How to Obstruct Parliamentary Committees, or the issuance of MEPs..."
Don't you hate it when people throw around words they have no idea the meaning of?
Fascists are state-ists, not free-trade, globalists. Fascist government is government by the military not people elected to Parliament. Fascists are opposed to modernity, they don't buy F-35s on the bleeding edge of modernity in fighter jets. Fascists believe in state socialism, not free markets. Fascists are as anti Conservative as they are anti Liberal. Paxton says:"a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants."
I hardly see this applying in any way to the Conservatives.
I just wish people who throw around labels, which at the beginning had shock-power in the ears of the uneducated, but now become tired slogans and the constant braying of nonsense, I wish these people would go to school, or at least learn how to use a dictionary. Sadly, terms like "fascism" which once had meaning now have little to no meaning at all: Little more than any other colloquialism one might find in the gutter of the English language.
Devit said "Fascism does not require military force..."
ReplyDeleteWhen using the term referring to government it actually does. Because government is the necessary expression of the ideology.
Again the term has hardly any meaning anymore, because as is clear by your use of the pejorative, it has fallen into gobledegook:
Here are some informing quotes:
"In political discourse, the term "fascist" is commonly used to denote authoritarian tendencies, but is often used as a pejorative epithet by adherents to both left-wing and right-wing politics to denigrate those with opposing viewpoints. ***George Orwell*** wrote in 1944 that "the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless"
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They believe that economic classes are not capable of properly governing a nation, and that a merit-based aristocracy of *****experienced military persons****
must rule through regimenting a nation's forces of production and securing the nation's independence"
Gregor, Anthony James. Mussolini's intellectuals: fascist social and political thought. Princeton University Press, 2004. p. 172."
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Devit said: ..working in uneasy, but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
ReplyDeleteI presume because it hits too close to home where subverting Parliamentary Law is concerned, if in fact I presume you're supporting these thugs...
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Actually this makes me smile,
Because on Wednesday, July 14th I quoted exactly the same quote to another person who didn't understand what Fascism meant. You can probably find it Vancouver Sun July 14.
Abandoning democratic liberties with redemptive violence visa vis internal cleansing? So the Gestapo is rounding Jews and Gypsies in Canada and shipping them to gas chambers? Because that is what your quote is talking about. So Canada is into violent expansion now? Is that what we are up to in Afghanistan? What are we going to send all our 1st nations people there? So we can colonize Canada II in SE Afghanistan? Its mostly desert anyway.... Give me a break, and give your head a shake.
And maybe think about going back to school... it might be enlightening.