What is fascism and why do some people dislike it?

There have not been very many Fascist governments, they were very similar (compared to what most people today are used to), so it is easy to give a definitive answer. Mussolini's Italy,Franco's Spain and Chile's Pinochet were classic Fascism. read more

For some reason this was almost a cliche. In Chile most of the German colony, farmers and business people, felt safer under military dictatorship than under the Socialists. At the time, being a young student, I wrote these people off as being Fascists themselves. read more

Fascism's approach to politics is both populist--in that it seeks to activate "the people" as a whole against perceived oppressors or enemies--and elitist--in that it treats the people's will as embodied in a select group, or often one supreme leader, from whom authority proceeds downward. read more

The larger point I'd like to make is that when you look at the principles and philosophies of fascism, you can clearly see their presence in the last six years of American society. read more