Lol of course Octavious is a UKIP supporter, and of course Santa insists on the old narrow, academic meaning of "fascism," given that be supports the fascist policies of Israel.
Look, since you haven't read a book since 1942, let me update you on how the word's meaning has changed.
The year is 1945, and the fascist governments have been defeated at war. Shocked by the full extent of the holocaust and all the devastation of the war, the general public repudiated fascism as a concept. Then, as the years went on, and people were thinking more directly about what went wrong in Germany, and so on, they started to identify *general, unifying trends and characteristics* that made the fascist governments so fucked up. And those properties increasingly were associated with the word the governments used to describe themselves: fascism.
And so now, fascism means pretty much exactly what jamiet listed, though of course the details are debatable, but the broad form is clear.
And thus it is not an intellectual leap at all to characterize the Trump campaign as fascist or neo-fascist if you like, nor the Front National, not Israel, ironically.
If you want to insist on the old, arcane meaning, we can't stop you, but it doesn't make you any less wrong. I can tell from this thread alone that im not the only one who understands what the term fascism refers to in 2015. And indeed as I implied in the first lines of this post, it is highly likely that willfully obscuring what fascism means modernly is something people with a political agenda do, i.e. A support of Israel for example who understands that the modern definition of a fascist society *applies to israel* will attempt to deny the broad understanding of the term's existence of validity, so as to avoid justified comparisons with, well, other fascist regimes.
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