Is America heading towards dictatorship?

[Serene]

The USA has always been a fascist country.

 

[emanymton]

The USA has always been a fascist country.

Saying things like this just renders the word fascist meaningless.

 

[PTK]

The USA has always been a fascist country.

If everything is fascist, then nothing is.

 

[Pickman's model]

The USA has always been a fascist country.

Yeh right the USA was fascist before mussolini was born

 

[PTK]

Yeh right the USA was fascist before mussolini was born

Uruk was a fascist state.

 

[Serene]

Yeh right the USA was fascist before mussolini was born

Fascism may not have always existed under that name, but it has always existed in the USA.

 

[Humberto]

Like when actors, screenwriters, and directors were not employed, and ordinary working class people lost their jobs, and foreign-born people were deported because of their political views?

I assume you're referring to McCarthyism. Isn't something I know a great deal about apart from convos with elders. Although anticommunism has bled through American politics to the present day and has a lot to answer for.

 

[Elpenor]

Like when actors, screenwriters, and directors were not employed, and ordinary working class people lost their jobs, and foreign-born people were deported because of their political views?

Premature anti-fascism was a crime according to HUAC

 

[PTK]

Fascism may not have always existed under that name, but it has always existed in the USA.

But not anywhere else? What do you mean by fascism?

 

[brogdale]

But not anywhere else? What do you mean by fascism?

It's clearly possible to look at the existence of some key influences on fascist ideology in the US. The corporatism and social Darwinism of the 'Gilded Age' is one obvious example.