Fascism

Fascism, the opposite of democracy, is an extreme right wing political system. If George W. Bush could have done whatever he wanted, America would be fascist. Fascism is a government controlled by one party, and most likely is started by a dictator, that or Richard Nixon, then again there isn't much of a difference, and is used to preserve a radical idea or to keep someone in power. It is almost what America was under Conservatives, no matter what anyone says. Neocons have a secret plan to spread Fascism across the globe, called the New World Order. Extremist conservatives (such as Glenn Beck) keep trying to rewrite the political spectrum to place Fascism on the left. This is due to their refusal to acknowledge that anything bad could ever have come out of the right-wing ever. They are both wrong and stupid.

Fascism is a mechanism for containing and repressing the working class and ordinary people. It was used to keep workers from forming unions and to keep labor laws like minimum wage from being passed. It favors privatization of major industries, although the government might tell the corporations what to do (like make weapons to bomb ethnic minorities)

The religious right tends to support fascists because fascist death squads tend to go around shooting atheist communists who protest against oppression.

Examples of Fascist Nations
Spain under Franco

Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler

Italy under Benito Mussolini

Japan under Tojo

Chile under Pinochet

Portugal under Salazar

Argentina under Videla

Fascist ideas
-Racism

-Established Class System

-Sexism

-Government controls social policies (Authoritarianism)

-Government gives all economic power to the corporations

-Integration of church and state (Clericalism)

-Repression of the media and/or controlled media (FOX News)

-Integration of corporations and state, with the government working for the good of corporations, not the people

-Complete disregard for the environment

-Nationalistic approach to international affairs

-Reintroduction of the Capital punishment (european fascism)

- Homophobia

Does Republican America fit this description? Yes. Every one of these.

Fascist dictatorships are far more extreme than America. Dubya is definitely a fascist.

People living in rural parts of the Bible Belt don't seem to have much more freedom than people living in fascist dictatorships. The law allows them free speach and allows them to do a great many things that their churches dislike. If they use these freedoms nobody will speak to them any more. In the worst cases some more violent people from the fundamentalist community will smite them in the name of sweet Jesus.