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Really? Fox News?Wow.I don't know how it is in your country but NO elites vote left here. They all vote with the owner of Fox News who then screws over the little guy.Elites vote left all over the world? That video is already lying.
The common elements of fascism ? extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, the leadership principle, elitism, anti-liberalism, anti-egalitarianism, anti-democracy, intolerance, glorification of war, the supremacy of the state and anti-intellectualism ? together form a rather loose doctrine. Fascism emphasises action rather than theory, and fascist theoretical writings are always weak. Hitler's Nazism had rather more theory, though its intellectual quality is appalling. This greater theoretical content is mostly concerned with race, and it was Hitler's racial theories that distinguished Nazism from Italian fascism. Ian Adams, in Political Ideology Today (1993)[Fascism is] a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti conservative nationalism. As such it is an ideology deeply bound up with modernization and modernity, one which has assumed a considerable variety of external forms to adapt itself to the particular historical and national context in which it appears, and has drawn a wide range of cultural and intellectual currents, both left and right, anti-modern and pro-modern, to articulate itself as a body of ideas, slogans, and doctrine. In the inter-war period it manifested itself primarily in the form of an elite-led "armed party" which attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to generate a populist mass movement through a liturgical style of politics and a programme of radical policies which promised to overcome a threat posed by international socialism, to end the degeneration affecting the nation under liberalism, and to bring about a radical renewal of its social, political and cultural life as part of what was widely imagined to be the new era being inaugurated in Western civilization. The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation's imminent rebirth from decadence. Roger Griffin, in The palingenetic core of generic fascist ideology (2003)
Right now I work 30 hours per week and am considered full-time. As a result I am afforded insurance through my employer (a catholic hospital system) which carries with it the numerous co-pays and deductibles and "out of pocket expenses" that most other insurances carry. Because my employer has more than 50 workers on staff they are required to grant insurance to all full-timers. I recently read that the republican party in the house of representatives wants to change the definition of "full-time" to 40 hours per week and I'm already hearing the rumblings about why that would be a good thing. If that changes, by law, my employer could basically drop the health insurance for just about everyone in the place leaving us all to enter the marketplace. I wonder, WWJD?(Yes, I know I didn't capitalize some important things.)
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