Er, you're not quite getting this, are you? You can't vote a fascist govt out of power, that's sort of the whole point really.
As I see it Fascism is a political ideology whereas democracy is a system of deciding governance. If a fascist government decides to become totalitarian then you would be unable to vote it out of office
I think the real point here is that for their 4 or 5 years in government, they can be as fascist as they like. We call our system a democracy - but is it really? The apathy of the electorate means a low turn out on voting day. From this you get a 'non' result - from that we get a government for which a small number of the original electorate has voted. And then the MPs dont listen (much) to their voters or do their bidding etc - just take huge amounts in pay & expenses.
The term "fascism" was first used in Italy in the 1920s to describe the movement led by Mussolini (a former communist) on principles supposedly reminiscent of the Roman Empire. Whatever it did or didn't stand for, you can be pretty sure democracy (a Greek concept rejected by the Romans) didn't figure.
The only thing democratic about our government is the election process. After that we are stuck with what it can get away with until we get an opportunity to democratically vote them out. I know we don't have a fascist state per se ( I wouldn't be here if it was )- but the MPs seem to do very little that is requested of them by their constituents - just what they damn well like - I'll let you put a description on that -but it's not what I would call democracy.
not according to the IMF, UN, OECD, World bank or any other international organisation you care to mention but don't let that worry you.
We have a better history and our people are much more friendlier and our country is prettier and the women are hotter too.The little things are the one's that count. I'm super glad to be British and not German,and I will always be British and be proud of it.Thank god I'm not german.
True. I spent some time there and found them to be among the most hospitable people I've come across and I've travelled most of Western Europe. It's hard to imagine how they were sucked into the whole Nazi thing back in the 1930's.
