Perhaps you should look up the term 'fascist', or, better yet, go to a country ruled by such a regime, become a citizen, and then make a post like that about the government and see how many HOURS it takes before they lock you up in a dark hole, never to be heard from again. We don't have a 'regime' here, Bush was elected,
twice!. Gore lost. Kerry lost. And you're still not over it? c'mon. We didn't scream nearly as much (At least I don't think we did) with Billy for 8 years...and I've heard some pretty bad stuff about him. (Selling F-15 factories to China at ten cents on the dollar to Communist China, Waco, accepting illegal campaign contributions, awarding government contracts to companies in exchange for votes (the flopped Lockheed Martin replacement for the Space Shuttle); lots of other stuff.) I'm not sure all were true, but some at least seemed credible. We really didn't like the guy, but we didn't think he was a fascist! Because if you live under a "fascist" "regime" (eg, go back to Italy during WWII), you don't survive very long making comments like the previous one. You go away, and everyone wonders what happened to you, but deep down they have the sickening knowledge that's you've either been interned in a hard labor camp or killed, or worse yet, tortured to death (Sadaam's human plastic shredder comes to mind).
Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. Similar political movements, including Nazism, spread across Europe between World War I and World War II. Fascism generally attracted political support from big business, landowners, and patriotic, traditionalist, conservative, far-right, populist and reactionary individuals and groups. Classical fascism has also inspired contemporary neo-fascist organizations.
There is little agreement among historians, political scientists, and other scholars concerning the exact nature of fascism. Some scholars hold that fascism as a social movement employs elements from the political left, but it eventually allies with the political right, especially after attaining state power. A few argue that fascism is a form of socialism or left corporatism. See: Fascism and ideology.
There is also controversy surrounding the question of what political movements and governments belong to fascism. The most restrictive definitions of fascism include only one government - that of Benito Mussolini in Italy. The broadest definitions, on the other hand, may include every authoritarian state that has ever existed. Fascism is associated with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, and, after attaining political control of a country, a powerful, dictatorial state that views the nation as superior to the individuals or groups composing it. Fascism also typically calls for the regeneration of the nation and uses populist appeals to unity. Mussolini defined fascism as being a right-wing ideology in opposition to socialism, liberalism, democracy and individualism. He said in The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism:
"Granted that the 19th century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the 20th century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right', a Fascist century. If the 19th century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies individualism) we are free to believe that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the State." [1]
The problem of defining fascism is complicated by the fact that the word fascist, used as an epithet, became an all-purpose insult after World War II, being widely applied to people on all sides of the political spectrum. In contemporary political discourse, adherents of some political ideologies tend to associate fascism with their enemies, or define it as the opposite of their own views."
From the Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist
