Its only really defining characteristic is that it is a mass movement, a second characteristic is that it relies upon a single personality or fairly presentable group as a personality for which to rally behind.

That is to separate it from a “revolution” which often is just a mass of people with a common agenda, lead by various competing groups with no real noticeable singular personality (group or individual) to direct the revolution.

So in many ways Fascism is revolutionary too – but with that distinction.

To understand why people erroneously think Fascism is “right-wing” is because Hitler (not Mussolini) relied heavily upon Conservatives who were anti-Democratic in Germany to gain power.

Once Hitler had gained power though he quickly dismantled those conservatives’ power base and structure as a group thereby denying them political power…and began to reform Germany as radically as the French Revolution or Russian Revolution ever did to those respective countries.

Fascism is a “mass movement” and beyond that definition it loses much of its meaning, this means that the KKK, also was fascist.

Now that being aside.

Gay agendas are promoted by a very small few people; less than the civil rights that’s for sure. In fact more people are actively involved in defending Marriage and returning homosexuality (Massachusetts department of health states that homosexuality is caused more by sexual abuse than by anything else) to its place of sin, than were involved in the civil rights movement.

From Wikipedia: Fascism is an authoritarian or totalitarian nationalist ideology, which is primarily concerned with notions of decline or decadence, and which seeks to solve such problems by achieving a millenarian national rebirth, exalting the nation or race above all else, and promoting cults of unity, strength and purity. Fascists typically seek to form a mass movement of militants who are willing to engage in violence against their perceived enemies.

Well, I think that Gingrich needs to read a dictionary because his definition of “fascism” is at odds with everyone else’s definition. Besides, Gingrich and his ilk are a lot closer to being fascist than anyone I have ever known in the gay community.

What a gasbag.

When it comes to Gingrich, try narrow minded.

And so recieved and documented………………………

PLEASE REMEMBER:
This man has lamented the fact that America has not been attacked since 9/11…

Read that again.

Now listen here:

… And it’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.”

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Gingrich_Bush_should_have_allowed_attack_0529.html

But Newt, vaut cities and Homelanders should be sacrificed to prove Der Fuhrer correct?

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2. Facism, by definition, cannot be a narrow reference.

gummitch Says:
I sure miss the days when Newt was invisible. Unfortunately, he’s like something you get stuck on your shoe at the dog park, and it’s really hard to scrape it all off.

Newt claims to be a “scholar” yet he apparently has no idea at all what the word “fascism” means.

gum, you totally nailed both these points.

One, I kind of appreciate the scattered appearances of Newt in the MSm. Reminds me how blissful it is when he’s invisible.

And two, despite Newt’s complete failure to grasp the concept of “fascism”, he’s still regularly described as one of the Right’s leading “intellectuals”. Tells you something about the intellectual health of the Right, don’t it?

This man who has the nerve to speak of right. This man who is three times married. Who went to the hospital bed of his first wife barely out of the operating room for cancer, and tried to get her to sign away her rights monetarily. A nurse threw him out. He married and divorced the woman he married next, or she divorced him for cheating on her. And now is in either this marriage or a new one.

This lunatic who cannot tell the truth or the same story twice. It’s good he has Fox, they don’t care. This man is like chewing gum on the cat. Hard to scrape off. These people simply cannot just lay down and die. They keep coming back like heart burn after a bad meal.

I am so totally sick and tired of the lot of them. And I never listen to the right wing slugs that keep giving them air time. None of them on the right should have air time anymore. Just a lot of hateful rhetoric.

I’ll give anyone a shiney new nickel if they drop a house on Newt.

Go away and STFU Newt!!

Then again after all his years of political side-stepping, he could give any Rockette or Broadway dancer a good run for their money.

Newt claims to be a “scholar” yet he apparently has no idea at all what the word “fascism” means.