The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable"...In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
― George Orwell, Essays
So each party feels justified in calling the other parties fascist.
Mussolini's original meaning was as a metaphor of a bundle of sticks where the sticks are cooperating government and corporate entities. In modern times both major party administrations loudly and proudly proclaim their corporate partnerships, but don't care to label that as fascism.
Mussolini's original meaning was as a metaphor of a bundle of sticks where the sticks are cooperating government and corporate entities. In modern times both major party administrations loudly and proudly proclaim their corporate partnerships, but don't care to label that as fascism.