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1. "Powerful and Continuing Nationalism" Nationalism is force fed to people, not as adults but definitely as students in middle and high school, if you read many modern textbooks they are bordering on propaganda. Do you know the origins of labor day? Did you get a glimpse on the bullshit we've been pulling in south America and Africa for decades? Compare [this](http://www.dol.gov/laborday/history.htm) to the [actual history](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/business-july-dec01-labor_day_9-2/)

2. "Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights" we have the worlds highest [incarceration rates](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate) coupled with [secret police](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/28/activists-protest-alleged-chicago-police-black-sites/24180197/) coupled with [active torture programs](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/12/cia-torture-report-released%20) on both american and foreign citizens. You can not argue that we view prison rape (on men at least) as an acceptable thing within our culture and do not view solitary confinement as the torture that it is like the rest of the world. 

3. "Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause" Because terrorism is a [*REALLY SERIOUS OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT*](http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-american-needs-to-hear/5382818) threat in the united states... If that doesn't fit the exact definition of a scapegoat I don't know what does. Terrorism is a problem, I'm not arguing it isn't but we are spending *billions* of dollars fighting a *miniscule* problem and not only spending money, but creating bills like the patriot act, the NSA, expanding public forfeiture to include potential for terrorism.

4. "Supremacy of the Military" well yeah a little [obvious](http://nation.time.com/2012/09/25/comparing-defense-budgets-apples-to-apples/)... As far as domestic problems it depends on what you define as "widespread domestic problems" and so I'm not going to debade that unless it is clarified further. but "the US is a big target for attack" is ridiculous. We have enough firepower to obliterate the next six top military nations, it would take most of the world in order to attack the united states on top of it being difficult to attack due to having an entire ocean on either side of it separating it from the rest of the world. We are not likely to be attacked anytime in the near future due primarily to location and that we are one of the primary sources of global *stability* due to our large economic power (which has been dwindling for decades).

5. "Rampant Sexism" I actually agree with you...

6. "Controlled Mass Media" not government... [corporations](http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6) and that is one of the very large reasons that net nutrality needs to remain in place and bills like the TPP absolutely *can not be passed* because if they do then the internet will be able to be censored along with traditional news sources, it's not North Korea and only just verging on Russia.

7. "Obsession with National Security" The US is *not* a primary target for an international conflict please provide sources showing otherwise(you make a claim you support it). We do need national security but when you create concepts like ["secret evidence"](http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1297&amp;context=clevstlrev) to " supports the use of secrecy, particularly in cases involving Arabs and Muslims suspected of terrorism or association with terrorist groups."(pg 9) then you are obsessed with national security in a *very* bad way...

8. "Religion and Government are Intertwined" It is in the constitution but the constitution is not being followed. This is one of the biggest arguments about having "God" in the pledge of alegience, it's not that there is anything wrong with "God" but that it is a direct violation of the 1st amendment. In addition to creating textbooks with [religious leanings](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/us-usa-texas-textbooks-idUSKCN0J51NU20141121) or [look](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_110th_United_States_Congress) what happens when you use a book other than the bible to swear into congress by. You are right, we are not a secular state yet, but we are heading down a slippery slope leading to christian fundamentalism.

9. "Corporate Power is Protected" people may put our government into office but it doesn't matter, only within the top 10% [do your votes make any difference on the policies which are enacted](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9836.html) or [in a nice video fromat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig) this guarantees that corporate power is protected as there is no way for the american population to enact change.

10. "Labor Power is Suppressed" Labor unions don't have a lot of power unless they have a lot of money(see point 9) and minimum wage is not increasing but [rather decreasing](http://www.dol.gov/minwage/minwage-gdp-history.htm). If they were powerful [this](http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/) would not be the case as the power of labor would be increasing... not decreasing.

11. "Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts" We don't have an open disdain but we are certainly harming our education system big time with [standardized testing](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/22/11-problems-created-by-the-standardized-testing-obsession/) increases in [college tuition](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/cost-of-college-degree-increase-12-fold-1120-percent-bloomberg_n_1783700.html) and [unforgivable outrageous student loans](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/surprising-reasons-for-the-student-debt-crisis/) which is seriously impacting our [standing](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248329823/u-s-high-school-students-slide-in-math-reading-science) in math, science and reading.

12. "Obsession with Crime and Punishment" highest incarceration rate in the world(linked above), willing to overlook police abuses, [yes](http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/is-stop-and-frisk-worth-it/358644/), [yes](http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kill-citizens-70-times-rate-first-world-nations/) and [yes](ww.google.com). Our police are known to [take any and all of your posessions](http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/american-shakedown-police-won-t-charge-you-but-they-ll-grab-your-money-1.2760736), immunity to first-degree murder while on the job, immunity to planting evidence and lying in court, immunity to assault and battery charges and immunity to breaking and entering(I feel I don't need to link to all of the above... unless you've been living under a rock...). I would be willing to bet several of us have been put onto a no-fly list at one point in time or another due to political activism. The united state police have unlimited power and this category is one of the scariest and fastest moving in this entire list.

13. "Rampant Cronyism and Corruption" Corruption is legal in america, we only vote for a few of our national level politicians(congress, senate and president) and local level elections can vary rather widely. Go back to the video I linked above detailing how corruption is legal in america and tell me it isn't. 

14. "Fraudulent Elections" Yes actually we use a first past the post voting system which has a host of [problems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo) this is coupled with extreme cases of [gerymandering](http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2010/11/11/the-top-ten-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts-in-the-united-states/) plus anyone with a felony can not vote [which is a large portion of the population](https://www.libertariannews.org/2014/06/05/what-percentage-of-us-adult-population-that-has-a-felony-conviction/) disenfranchises many people from getting their voices heard. That coupled with the problems in 13. means that you have no say over the political process and as such you are left with puppet elections, in other words your vote doesn't count...

Do I think we are a fascist state... no... but we sure as hell are headed in that direction and rather quickly, however the american fascist state will be interesting as the state will be run by large corporations running puppet governments rather than the other way around.

For future reference I recommend you try to follow up every claim with evidence to support said claim. I am far from perfect but it goes a long way into helping people realize if you are being accurate or shitting smoke out of your ass, currently I feel like I am in a very bad smelling hot box. Prove me wrong :)

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