How Do You Define Fascism?

In the wake of Feinstein's "common sense" security theater bill and Berlusconi being eviscerated (by the left of all people) for praising Mussolini, comes this neat little tidbit by way of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Seems like the good mayor is:

"...Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is putting more pressure on gun makers to get behind his push for an assault weapons ban and criminal background checks for gun purchasers.
This time, he wants to go after their bottom line.

Emanuel is pushing two major financial institutions to stop their financial backing of gun makers, unless those companies support “commonsense reforms, including requiring criminal background checks on all gun sales.”

The mayor is urging that banks to stop lines of credit, financing for acquisitions and expansions and financial advising...."

What you have here folks, since we didn't witness it unfold the first time around, is naked fascism wrapped up in progressive gibberish.

All this nonsense, and still no real statistics to back them up. Just vague lamentations appealing to "common sense." That they believe "no one needs such and such a gun" is not a reason to ban (and eventually confiscate) them.

Fascism is the merger of corporate and state interests.

It's something the Obama administration has been excelling at to adoring crowds.

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About poor Silvio. Already under stress about not likely being able to bring Real Madrid's Kaka back to AC Milan, he made the grave mistake of putting in a good word for Benito.

The thing I find most hilarious (and depressing) is the left and their reaction.

Right. That's rich.

Last I checked, it was the left that consistently supported and praised ideologies like socialism, Nazism and Communism (like in France, Italy and Germany) in the 20th century. In fact, it's exactly because of the disintegration of humanist and classical liberal thought that led to this vacuum (one in which conservatives warned against.).

From artists to naive politicians alike, they fell on the wrong side of history and they have the gall to attack Berlusconi? Say what you want, but Mussolini wasn't quite the murderous fiend as seen from Stalin, Hitler and of course, Mao.

Unreal.

Being liberal is never having to say you're wrong or sorry.