Increasing taxing, spending and regulation is not a step towards socialism.
Its a step towards government control of the economy. And complete or near complete government control of the economy would be considered socialism by most.
But if you don't like the common modern definition and prefer the older one, than fine increasing taxing, spending, and regulation, is a step towards fascism.
But he isn't....Cheney is more guilty of that than Obama.
Cheney didn't increase government control anywhere near the extent that Obama has started to do. Of course he was VP not president, but even if your talking about Bush and Cheney, Obama's actions and announced plans, go farther than Bush.
No they are not...they are both extremes on the political spectrum
They are both opposite points of an arbitrarily defined political spectrum, but that's a weakness in the defining of the spectrum, not an argument for anything about socialism or fascism. On the key point they are the same. Assuming the socialism is government socialism, not small scale voluntary socialism, then they are both about increased government control, just with the socialist doing it by owning the means of production, and the fascists doing it by ordering the owners to do what the fascists want them to do. |
