Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama | Cornel West

SSG (Join to see) - You can throw out the "Italian Fascist" movement of 1919 as an example of comparisons between Fascism and modern American Conservatism, but that's not what is meant when academics or the media use the term in conjunction with Trump. Most Americans equate Fascism with Hitler...period. The term is used to disparage Conservatives. Unlike you, most Americans don’t know the difference and believe Hitler was strictly a hard right fanatic. Fascists hated democracy and capitalism because those systems focused on the individual, not the state. West knew how his article would be perceived and it wasn’t to show ties between Trump and Italian politics in the early 1900s.

PO1 Don Gulizia - Neofascism, the term most often used, began in 1945. When you use the term neofascist, you are talking about fascist governments in Europe after the end of WW2.

SSG (Join to see) - My point is the terms fascism, fascist, newofascism, etc. all have the desired effect on those that don't know the difference. They are used to tie Trump to Hitler. This is not unlike using socialism (and all associated terms) with Obama. The only difference is that there was no clear effort to link Obama with Stalin.

Fascism is the desire to control every aspect of a person's life an eliminate any choices for them. This is best exemplified in the modern world by the communist/socialist factions.

Thanks, CPT Jack Durish . You saved me from reading this drivel.

CPT Jack Durish - You mean these takers? They seem quiet hopeful that they will be able to take a lot more... http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/high-on-the-hog-the-top-8-corporate-welfare-recipients.html/?a=viewall

Yeah, I'm still waiting for Trump to get his Nobel Peace Prize, surely that will happen because surely there is no hypocrisy involved from that august committee.

Thank you, I have so many other things I could be doing besides reading this article, getting irritated because someone could actually think this idiotic crap was rational thought, and then respond. Now I can watch TV, sleep, laugh at idiotic Meryl Streep's foolishness, anything but respond to him- thank you!

According to your logic we should have left the Philippines, Germany, South Korea, and a bunch of other nations we successfully help rebuild. If that's what you honestly believe, I can respect that without agreeing with it.SSG (Join to see) -

He used the SOFA as an excuse to get out. No meaningful negotiation took place, that's what was reported and will go in the history books. He just wanted to keep a campaign promise, everything else be damned. SSG (Join to see) -

SFC (Join to see) - Ouch. So explain 'merica abandoning her South Vietnamese allies? Not the same thing tho, right?

Exactly the same thing. I believe that was the first event in our country's history where publicity generated enough public support to force us to pull out. It was a damm shame too because we were literally within weeks of the North Vietnam suing for peace. That's the period in our history where the lies started to make a difference in a bad way. Many lives were lost because of it. PO3 Donald Murphy -