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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 20:41:40 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   So for starters just so we are all on the same page here, fascism means an ideology that supports a strong authoritarian government. Genrally it equates to a government with a great deal of power to execute their laws harshly and completely. It makes no assertion, however, as to if those laws are just or not, an ethical government can, at least in theory, be a fascist one (the benevolent king). In other words its where the greater good (as defined by the government) is more important than personal freedoms and liberties

   By this definition I'd clearly place both democrats and republicans in the "Fascist" category with republicans leaning a bit more towards fascism, but with both being strongly fascist. By comparison Libertarians are the opposite, the least fascist.

   That said simply having a central bank or a government controlled currency in and of itself isnt the issue. Its not Fascism simply to run a currency management that people can choose to use. Where it becomes fascism is when laws get enacted that force you to use that monetary system as opposed to having other options. As long as you have an option, even if everyone chooses to use it, then it isnt facism.

   So that said a central bank, in and of itself, isnt fascism. However laws that require you to use that currency as a monetary system, or any law that prevents competition with the monetary system start to lead towards fascism, the more harsh those laws are the more it resembles fascism. So when it was illegal to hold gold for fear it would compete with us dollar, that would have been an example of a fascist use of a central bank.

   Even the loan system isnt fascism, nor even a bad thing so long as its optional for people to engage with it. Fascism isnt simply anytime something exists within the central government or even something that gives the central government some degree of power. Fascism is only really when that power is used authoritatively to suppress personal freedoms. So long as you are free to choose, even if the system is built so many will have their choice manipulated by propaganda, then that isnt fascism. But again, fascism doesnt mean "good or bad" so something that isnt fascism may still be bad and something that is fascism may still be good. The problem with good fascism is they will often devolve into evil eventually.