Yes, Republicans Really Are Moving Us Toward Full-Blown Fascism
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- Daily Kos, April 21, 2022.
-- Corporations that publicly question the party’s preferred policy, or withhold donations in protest, will be subject to discriminatory policy. If they enjoy favorable regulatory or tax treatment, they can continue to do so on the condition that they stay in the GOP’s political good graces. This is one way rulers like Orban and Putin hold power. It is a method that, until quite recently, would have been considered unthinkable in the United States. --
On Thursday, the Florida legislature passed a bill cancelling Walt Disney World’s special tax status in that state. The bill, which will now almost certainly become law, eliminates the company’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, formed in 1967 as a consequence of the Disney corporation’s purchase of land to build its Magic Kingdom. The district and its quasi-ownership by Disney were created in part to alleviate anticipated tax burdens on local state governments with boundaries that encompass the 25,000-acre district, and it “essentially allows the megaresort, which employs roughly 80,000 people, to function as its own municipal government.”
Disney’s privileged status was revoked because Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek publicly criticized legislation passed last month by DeSantis and the Florida GOP that prohibits discussions about gender-related issues in the state’s public schools. Known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, that bias-affirming legislation is one of the more recent examples of Republican legislation designed to marginalize and demonize LGBTQ people, now an imperative for the Republicans in their effort to gain and cement political power.
The impact this retaliatory legislation will have on Disney's bottom line is unclear (its legality is highly questionable), but frankly it’s irrelevant to the larger point. What DeSantis and the Florida GOP have signaled with this action is their willingness to impose and inflict their warped sense of supposed Christian morality (or lack thereof) on the public at large through legislation that financially punishes private corporations that oppose or publicly disagree with their views. As Greg Sargent, writing for The Washington Post explains, this represents a chilling “expanded use of state power to fight the culture wars in a much broader and more pernicious sense.”...
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- Biden: Republicans’ Disney law shows ‘far right has taken over party,’ The Guardian, April 22, 2022,
Florida strips company of self-governing power for opposing Governor Ron DeSantis’s ‘don’t say gay’ law
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/biden-desantis-florida-republicans-disney
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- German American Bund parade on East 86th St., New York City, October 30, 1939.
- The German American Bund (1936-1941) or the German American Federation was a German-American Nazi organization which was established in 1936 as a successor to the Friends of New Germany. The organization chose its new name in order to emphasize its American credentials after the press accused it of being unpatriotic. The Bund was allowed to consist only of American citizens of German descent. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany. .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
- Early Nazis at the Marienplatz in Munich, Germany during the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's failed coup in Nov. 1923.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch
- LIST OF FASCIST MOVEMENTS: Wiki, Contents
1 The Axis (1922–1945)
1.1 Italy (1922–1943)
1.2 Germany (1933–1945)
1.3 Japan (1926–1945)
2 Other countries
2.1 Austria (1933–1945)
2.2 Brazil (1937–1945)
2.3 China (1928–1949)
2.4 Croatia (1941–1945)
2.5 France (1940–1944)
2.6 Greece (1936–1941)
2.7 Hungary (1932–1945)
2.8 Norway (1942–1945)
2.9 Portugal (1933–1974)
2.10 Poland (1930s)
2.11 Romania (1940–1944)
2.12 Slovakia (1939–1945)
2.13 Spain (1936–1975)
2.14 South Africa (1948-1994)
2.15 Yugoslavia (1935–1939)
3 * Fascism in democratic nations
3.1 Australia (1931–1940s)
3.2 Belgium (1930s–1945)
3.3 Canada (1930s–1940)
3.4 Chile (1932-1938)
3.5 Finland (1929–1932)
3.6 Ireland (1932–1933)
3.7 Lebanon
3.8 Mexico (1930–1942)
3.9 The Netherlands (1923–1945)
3.10 Sweden (1926–1929)
3.11 United Kingdom (1932–1940)
3.12 United States (1933–1941)
4 Differences among fascist movements... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fascist_movements
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- FASCISM, Wiki is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy that rose to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I, before spreading to other European countries. Opposed to anarchism, democracy, liberalism, and Marxism, fascism is placed on the far-right wing within the traditional left–right spectrum.
Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete. They regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. A fascist state is led by a strong leader (such as a dictator) and a martial law government composed of the members of the governing fascist party to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.. The extreme authoritarianism and nationalism of fascism often manifests a belief in racial purity or a master race, usually synthesized with some variant of racism or bigotry against a demonized "Other". These ideas have motivated fascist regimes to commit genocides, massacres, forced sterilizations, mass killings, and forced deportations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
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