Fascism Is Good

Problems With Fascism:Fascism as an ideological system was tried in Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each of these nations suffered disastrous results. The militaristic stance that fascism promotes lead Germany and Italy into World War II, which both lost. Adopting fascism could send our own nation on a similar trajectory. Considering the United States is militaristic enough as a democracy it is easy to see how a fascist USA might lead to another world war and our defeat or worse a nuclear world war that could potentially wipe out humanity as we know it. Worse than the possibility of another world war is fascism's promotion of prejudice and discrimination. The ultranationalistic attitudes are paired together with scapegoating of minorities. In Nazi Germany this culminated in the Holocaust where 6 million Jews and about 5 million Gypsies, Roma, homosexuals, and political dissidents were murdered in concentration camps. Even worse child, even babies were not spared from these massacres. This shows the sort of absolute insanity that fascism promotes, the idea that innocent children could possibly be enemies of the state. Furthermore fascism does not even deliver the "Transcendence" of class that it promises. Far from merging all classes into a harmonious whole fascism accentuated class differences. Both the Italian and German governments were rather chummy with corporate bigwigs, particularly American ones. http://www.globalresearch.ca... So not only is fascism likely to increase class differences it's likely to enrich the foreign rich on the back of its own poor. Rebuttals: Rebuttal 1: The United States is a nation of immigrants. Throughout our history our culture has been shaped by the blending of cultures. On the Statue of Liberty it is inscribed "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Our national identity is itself wrapped up in the "melting pot" of different cultures over time. People are patriotic and loyal to the United States, because our nation stands for liberty. Fascism would betray our entire nation's founding purpose and its history. http://en.wikipedia.org... Rebuttal 2: Our country already has some of the strictest sentences for crimes. Nevertheless, we have the worst crime rate in the world. http://www.huppi.com... Another country, Finland has a prison policy that would get any American politician thrown out of office by angry voters for "coddling" criminals. http://www.nytimes.com... Finnish prisons are almost like college dormitories, and sentences are short. Nevertheless, Finland has a low crime rate, and the Finnish hold their prison system in high esteem. Another big difference between Finland and the United States is that Finland has less class inequality. This shows that socioeconomic factors are a better predictor of crime than is "tough on crime" measures. Since fascism exacerbates class inequalities crime will likely get worse. Furthermore, a fascist society without the protections affoarded in a democracy is more likely to punish innocent people. EVen if these measures reduced crime the harm the government would do to people would outweigh the harm being prevented from being done to people by criminals. Rebuttal 3: Our national identity rests on liberty. Far from strengthening national pride and strength fascism in claiming to strengthen national identity by going against our own founding principles could create a "national identity crisis", leading to civil war. Rebuttal 4: Germany tried the same thing. One of the people it got rid of(in this case he fled due to the changing conditions), Einstein was a brilliant scientist who instead of further contributing his technological expertise to Germany had to go to the United States to do it. He had a key role in the Manhattan Project, which ironically defeated Germany's ally, Japan with an atomic bomb. Einstein was Jewish so he didn't have the option of converting to nazism/fascism and staying and helping Germany. Similarly, a fascist USA might lose some brilliant minds due to intolerance.