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What self-professed 'centrists' sound like
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Why don't you go ahead and name some of those things then?
I am against abortion. But someone else might be more libertarian (I am not a libertarian) yet view the Republican party as evil. Even if you think that person not a good person, calling them a nazi or a fascist doesn't really make sense.
Pretty big yikes to start out with just a blanket statement like that, but you do you.
I'm not really sure what you mean by this part other than you just think the term fascist is being applied in scenarios where there's just disagreement?
But it really isn't difficult to see the modern Republican party very much represents the ideals of fascism. It isn't even a stretch. Let's go through the definition of fascism:
"a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition" - from Merriam Webster Online
so in order:
As you can see it doesn't take waving a nazi flag or sieg heiling all over the place to fit at least some of the requirements to be labeled a fascist, and if we go by these metrics there are a lot of people actively supporting fascism in our country right now. I don't think the term is much overused to be honest.
Umberto Eco gives an excellent 14 points to identify fascism.
Bro this applies a little too well to the left too
There are self-proclaimed leftist movements which fit ur-fascism as defined here. Which is unsurprising, considering that leftism is generally defined by opposition to capitalism, while fascism can be for or against capitalism.