When it comes to fascism, most people are totally against such; but then again, most of those same people can’t seem to be able to define what fascism is – except to vaguely believe that it has something to go with Germany, Hitler, World War II, and Nazism. In truth, a fascist state is a nation in which its governance is authoritarian or dictatorial in nature, it is heavily militarized, and it also has structured its judicial laws to suppress individual interests so that the people will thereby be properly subservient to the collective good of the nation -- so represented in fascism by the combination or the coordination of corporate interests and governmental power into one joint entity.
When we look upon America, it may well have a liberal Constitution, but as in many a case, words so written don’t count for much, when they are superseded by the structure of how that country so operates in actuality. For, we so find, that civil disobedience, and civil petitions to the government for redress of grievances, are systematically being put down through, oftentimes, the militarized police; and of which, there is a strong conservative current of those that believe that what this nation needs more of, is law and order, which in its implementation, always supports the status quo and those that actuate those actions, against the common people, in whole. So too, though the United States, has executive, legislative, and judicial branches, it is becoming rather obvious that the workaround to recalcitrant legislatures, is for the executive office to issue executive orders, and when those orders are subsequently upheld by a majority of the nine Supreme Court justices, then effectively this republican democracy is becoming more authoritarian by the day.
We also find that the disturbing thing about Americas’ rise of awesome corporate power, is the fact that these corporations as currently structured are perpetual in nature; and of which, those that run those corporations are forever after more growth, less taxation, and more profit, by whatsoever means that they can accomplish such. Our present day government does not mind this corporate preference in the least, and therefore has little or no interest in the breaking up of corporate behemoths, but actually encourages by its policies or by its benign non-interest, more corporate mergers; thereby signifying that this government prefers to deal with large mega-corporations, that control huge market share via a monopoly, duopoly, or consortium of like-mined corporations, because each side of this equation then finds that this benefits best their interests – which can essentially be summarized as the exploitation of the people for the benefit of the elites.
America is far down the road of fascism, of which, our duly elected representatives have too often been aiders and abettors to such – though, as always, there are exceptions to this general rule. For those that care or are concerned, and thereby want to know the future – that unfolding story is best told through the rise or the fall of American unions, for it is in those unions, that the common people are thereby able to joined together into one body politic to see that they are properly compensated with a fair wage, job security, benefits, and a pathway to advancement or not. For, it can be said, that unions are, and forever will be, an anathema to any fascist state.