Fascism In American Democracy

I thought the articles were interesting when I first read through them. In the article, “What is Fascism,” demonstrated the definition of Fascism through the view point of Mussolini in 1932. He states how Fascism has a spiritual view on life. “Fascism now and always, believes in holiness and in heroism” (Halsall). I thought that was interesting to view Fascism as a spiritual sense because that form of government is a controlling dictatorship. I have never read the words “Fascism” and “holiness” in the same sentence until now. In the second article, “Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian State,” demonstrates a different view on Fascism. Germany at the time was a fascist, totalitarian state government. The “totalitarian regimes, in contrast …show more content…
When I read this article it made me laugh because the examples that were stated. Like for dictatorship that example of cows made me laugh. It states that “you have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you” (Fennell). I never thought I would see something like that in the article. It was almost similar to militarism because instead of getting shot you get drafted. I’m not surprised that the American democracy is described that way. How the president will become impeached and is call “cowgate” (Fennell) by the press. That reminds me of the Watergate scandal and President Nixon. It was interesting to find forms of government that I didn’t know. One of them being Hong Kong Capitalism. To me it’s just capitalism in China but just added a city in front of the name. Bureaucracy is the second one that I didn’t know, but was interesting to read about. According to the cow example, the government shots one cow and makes you do the paperwork for it in the end. Apparently, the examples are making fun of the forms of government and I just realized it now. I enjoyed reading this article because of the humor it had. That’s why I though all the articles were interesting and funny to read