Nah he’s just a bought and sold crony capitalist like the rest of them. The word “fascism” connotes an ideological purity that American politicians could never adhere to. Was Hamilton a fascist? FDR’s new deal was praised by Mussolini, but it was just a political tool. Obama exercises control over industry in a way that has been going on for well over 100 years.
I recommend “The United States and Fascist Italy 1922-1940” and the collected writings of Gramsci to get a sufficient grasp on the topic to rebut your friend’s claims.
It must be true, because he used a fancy word I have never heard of. Set and match!
The fascist slur is hardly new. Way back in 2009, there were demonstrators outside my post office in California (in a pretty strongly Democratic area, BTW) with a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache. These people just throw out any ‘bad’ words they can think of; they don’t know or really care what they mean.
Being a fascist, socialist communist is pretty hard to pull off. I admire Obama for being all those things at once. And that is w/o including the fact that he is the anti-christ, while also being muslim at the same time. I hope the right remains this dumb, it makes it easier to beat them.
I believe fascism is a unity among the resentful working class and the business class, a militant foreign policy, hostility towards egalitarianism, belief in nationalism, independence from the international community, etc. It goes w/o saying Obama fails pretty much all those things.
Obama fails at fascism, hows that for a false negative? that’s like saying I love Rush Limbaugh because he’s such an eqalatarian.
Is it possible your friend was joking?
Which really means nothing as I heard the same stuff about Bush between 2004-2008. Some people are just idiots.
With fasces in their faces!
CMC
Fascist, with benefits?
Incidentally a major proponent of dirgiesme was Charles De Gaulle who hardly was a fascist. Supporting certain fascist ideas doesn’t make one a fascist-Eisenhower was inspired by the autobahns of Germany while my views on art are (minus blaming the Jews for degenerate art needless to say) more or less identical to that of the Nazis (and the Communists too) but doesn’t make General Eisenhower or me a fascist.