One Can Easily Argue the US is Already Fascist

There is no one universally accepted definition of fascism. The US has very many similarities with 1930s fascist Italy and Germany. And still some important differences. The line between industry and government has been blurred beyond recognition. Large, government favored firms cannot fail regardless of how badly they are run. The heads of those firms never go to jail no matter how many crimes they commit.

We still have elections, but massive voter suppression. Election fraud suspicions got so bad in 2016 that the Democrats had to address it in their primary. There solution was to cancel exit polls so that the massive discrepancies between exit polls and results could no longer be seen.

The long list of similarities with important differences goes on.

Trump still won, not with help from Russia, but surely with the help of voter suppression, disenfranchisement and most likely out-right vote manipulation. Who didn’t accept the results? A lot of Democrats.

We now have in-fighting between the deep state supporting the establishment wings of the two major parties and those on the outside. Just like in other failed states. Matt Taibbi produces terrifyingly well written and documented pieces on this situation regularly.

If you require brown shirts goose stepping down Pennsylvania avenue to believe that the US has fascism, then you’ll never believe it. If you accept that faceless and nameless armed government agents can detain you at any time and hold you indefinitely on false or nebulous charges or no charges at all — which is the case in the US — then one can easily argue that US fascism is already here.