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<\/a><\/p>\nCitizens will carry signs condemning \u201ccorporate fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n
The signs will read — Fascist Free Zone, Just Say No to Corporate Fascism, Clinton Cruz Trump — Wall Street Happy, Obamacare: Brought to You By Aetna\/Cigna\/WellPoint, \u00a0and Export-Import Bank — Corporate Cronyism at Its Best.<\/p>\n
The group cited President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s April 1938 message to Congress<\/a> in which he said — \u201cThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not too extreme to call our system of government now \u2018American fascism,\u2019” consumer advocate Ralph Nader told Democracy Now\u2019s Amy Goodman in 2013. <\/a>\u201cIt\u2019s the control of government by big business, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt defined in 1938 as fascism. And they control the government and turn the government to their favor — subsidies, handouts, giveaways, deferred prosecutions, non-prosecutions — and against the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n Conservative thinkers like Heritage Foundation visiting fellow and Fox News contributor Stephen Moore agree with the definition of fascism<\/a> as \u201cthe partnership of government and private industry for the collective good.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCorporate cronyism is a classic form of fascism, which would include programs like the Export-Import Bank,\u201d Moore says.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen asked \u201cIs Donald Trump a Fascist?\u201d<\/a> and concluded that \u201cTrump is a proto-fascist, rather than an actual fascist.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn other words, he has many ideas that are fascistic in nature, but he is not proposing violence as a way of implementing those ideas,\u201d Bergen wrote.<\/p>\n But the group rallying in Berkeley Springs was more concerned with whether the American system of government was moving toward corporate fascism as defined by Roosevelt, Nader and Moore — that is, a corporate takeover of the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A holiday anti-fascist rally is set for Wednesday December 16, 2015 at 6 pm in front of Berkeley Springs State Park in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Citizens will carry signs condemning \u201ccorporate fascism.\u201d The signs will read — Fascist Free … Continue reading