Hello Björn,

 O>> I wouldn't bet on that. US voters and Republicans might be dumb enough
 O>> to elect an even bigger asshole than Trump.

 BF> The dumber he is, the easier they think it is to control their POTUS.

Donald J. Trump was bright or clever enough to win his party's
nomination, and then the general election. And then everybody found
out he could not be controlled by anybody, or even himself.

 BF> And the more donations (AKA bribes) they can expect from the billionaires
 BF> and major corporations. A perfectly corrupt society.

After his latest stunt, most (if not all) of the billionaires and
major corporations jumped ship, investing their moneys elsewhere.
The NRA has declared bankruptcy, the numbers of his mob continue
to dwindle as more arrests are made, some of his billionaire pals
have keeled over and can no longer contribute to his cause ...

 BF> The original meaning of fascism (as invented in Italy circa 1932) was a
 BF> society govern by people who listened to the corporations and not the
 BF> people.

The Italian Origin of Fascism

The words fascism and fascist have long been associated with the
Fascisti of Benito Mussolini and the fasces, the bundle of rods with
an ax among them, which the Fascisti used as a symbol of the Italian
people united and obedient to the single authority of the state.
However, Mussolini did not introduce the word fascista (plural
fascisti) with the 1919 organization of the Fasci di combattimento
(“combat groups”), nor did the fasces have any direct connection with
the origin of fascista. In Italian, the word fascio (plural fasci)
means literally “bundle,” and figuratively “group.” From at least 1872
fascio was used in the names of labor and agrarian unions, and in
October 1914 a political coalition was formed called the Fascio
rivoluzionario d’ azione internazionalista (“revolutionary group for
international action”), which advocated Italian participation in World
War I on the side of the Allies. Members of this group were first
called fascisti in January 1915. Although Mussolini was closely
associated with this interventionist movement, it had no direct link
with the post-war Fasci di combattimento, and in 1919 the word fascista
was already in political circulation. It is, however, to the Fascisti
in their 1919 incarnation—who seized power in Italy three years
later—that we owe the current customary meanings of our words fascism
and fascist.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism


 BF> Hmmm... does that seem like the situation in the USA?

Is the pope Catholic?

 BF> Nahhh... Surely the US lawmakers would never do something like that?

All democracies have fascist tendencies. Does that make every
democracy a fascist state?

--Lee

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