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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
Nazi stands for "National Socialist Party" FYI, and economically it was a very Socialist movement.
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The architects of the party did not want to use the term "Socialist," because of the connections to left-leaning groups; instead, they used the term "socialist" to reflect their belief that the role of social welfare should be moved from the church to the state. There's a lot more to their use of the term "socialist," FYI.
The long and short of what I'm saying, and no one has yet to challenge this, is that most laypeople people use the term "fascist" as a way of hurling insults at someone whose political beliefs do not align with their own. In other words, it's a highly dramatic, downright hysterical, and utterly fallacious way of conducting political discourse.
Anyway, I haven't heard anyone else refer to Obama as "pro-fascist," so I'm going to call this as hysteria.