Look in the Mirror
Fascism is a word that gets tossed around a lot, but the actual meaning often gets lost.
Webster’s Dictionary defines fascism as “a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control”…and as “a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”
The left has been using that term to brand Republicans…with the current president calling the current GOP “semi-fascist” (whatever that is).
But which side with the stroke of a pen is relieving borrowers of a half trillion dollars or more of college debt, after previously saying such presidential executive action is illegal?
Which side appointed Cabinet members and key staff–as well as a U.S. Supreme Court justice–based primarily on skin color and gender?
Which side continues to push for nationalizing everything from health care to voting, as opposed to allowing states rights as in the Constitution?
Which side seeks to enact sweeping life-changing legislation with a bare majority in one chamber and only a tie-breaker majority in the other?
It’s a rhetorical device…loudly claim the other side is something to divert attention from the fact that your side is doing the very same thing (and usually worse). It reduces the retort, therefore, to something akin to “I know what you are, but what am I?”
Perhaps those hurling the phrase “facist” so loudly should look in the mirror…then again, they may already have, which would explain the ratcheting up of the rhetoric this close to an election.
