Liberal AND Fascist - can you be both.

[a_cubed]

One of those strange links on google came up today. Looking for something entirely other, I came across the website of the elite liberal fasict association".


Is it possible to be liberal and fascist at the same time. Is it, as they claim, possible to support democracy and be fascist at the same time. Even taking away the links between fascist states of the past and racism and homophobia (by the way, I'm sitll not sure what their stance on homosexuality is - their statement is self-contradictory), is it possible to support the idea of democracy and an authoritarian government? Is it possible to have some for of PR and still have an authoritarian regime?

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[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

is it possible to support the idea of democracy and an authoritarian government?

Yes, if you give the elected government the power to govern absolutely. Of course then you come across the human nature problem that the individuals will not want to give up power... :)

I particularly like the fact that they invite everyone, even non-fascists, to join them.

Is democracy just voting once in a while

[a-cubed.livejournal.com]

Ah, but this assumes democracy is simply about being able to vote once every n years to change the government. Personally, I think that voting in an absolute power can never be a form of democracy. If you have absolute power you don't have things like freeedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom from imprisonment for political activity likely to remove the current absolute authority from power. Once you give a government that kind of absolute power by a single "democratic vote", I don't believe you can be sure you'll have democracy in the future.

Of course all this assumes that the absolute power means something, but as we've seen those with absolute power tend to abuse it radically. Without checks and balances in the system it will always move toawrds extremes. That's human nature, I believe.