What would America under Fascism be like?
Fascist America
Chase King
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Oliver Price
Like the current year
Asher Bennett
Impossible in such an individualist country.
Lucas Turner
Chile most likely
David Stewart
Mandatory displays of nationalism, aversion against free press and increasing militarism. It would be horrible.
Angel Smith
The overall goal of the fascist regime is to remake society in the image of its ideals. To that effect they will pass many different morality laws, that is to say laws whose intended effect is to shape the public morality. Many things deemed "harmful to the public good" will be outlawed: alcohol, most kinds of drugs including marijuana, pornography, gambling, tobacco, and so on.
This legislating away "harmful" things will eventually extend into the realm of ideas, and so cleansing entertainment and the media would be next. No facist regime can allow a free press to exist, nor indeed any form of media not directly under its supervision. All entertainment would be screened by the fascists and only those programs deemed "appropriate" would be allowed. In the beginning they'd only first remove those programs that directly contradict their party beliefs, but eventually anything that does not overtly support them would be removed, leaving only a mixture of vapid escapist nonsense and propaganda.
Secret police force would be formed by the regime to "find and quickly suppress terrorist plots against the nation" but whose actual goal would be to arrest and disappear dissidents and critics of the regime.
Schools are of course of great important to fascists. Molding the children into future supporters of the regime is utmost importance, so controlling the information available to them is paramount. If you've already done the previous steps then this is fairly simple. You just replace all the teachers with loyalists and rewrite the textbooks so that the official story lines up with everything they see in society around them: their entertainment supports the party, all the businesses left support the party (because anyone who didn't was arrested for being a terrorist), and so on.
Jaxson Jackson
This. Americans have little/no concept of duty or sacrifice. Even if everyone in the country was a /pol/tard it wouldn't actually go fascist.
Evan Hall
sounds like JFK
Ethan Russell
It's an Anglo thing really, as America has mostly Anglo culture. Mosley tried to import fascism to Britain and completely failed mostly for the same reason even though he was a very charismatic figure. Fascism is largely compatible only with continental European cultures.
Jacob Reyes
Sounds like communism