Taking a look around on ‘Yahoo! Answers’ one would certainly think so!

This particular category seems to have been hijacked by bigots hell-bent on spreading a message of hate and intolerance.

Can anyone recall what happened last time fascism ruled in Western Europe?

No. It just seems to be a bunch of idiots given a platform by a media that thrives on such stories. Certainly the majority of people in the UK think the BNP and the EDL are complete ****s.

Taking a look around on ‘Yahoo! Answers’ one would certainly think so!

This particular category seems to have been hijacked by bigots hell-bent on spreading a message of hate and intolerance.

Can anyone recall what happened last time fascism ruled in Western Europe?

No. It just seems to be a bunch of idiots given a platform by a media that thrives on such stories. Certainly the majority of people in the UK think the BNP and the EDL are complete ****s.

The new fascism (a left-wing phenomena by American standards) is gradually gaining traction through bribes of government entitlement, devaluation of human life, fascistic government control of industry (true corporatism), and an ever-more-extreme anti-Constitutional secular statism.

What can be done to reverse this Neo-fascistic trend of Progressivism?

How can the brainwashed (progressive minions) be awakened from the indoctrination they erroneously refer to as "education" and shown real rather than "revised" history?

President Obama won’t accept a balanced budget.

He is a former member of The New Party, in Chicago.
That was a branch of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Socialists aren’t evil. They have a very clear agenda and have even been somewhat honest about it.

Crash capitalism and replace it with socialism.

They think they are "good guys". There are no villains in real life. Everyone thinks they are the good guys, or at very least, the victims.

He wants it crashed.
So do Pelosi, Frank, and a hundred other Congress members and hundreds of government workers who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America (look it up, don’t believe me).

The DSA needs to leave my party.

We’ve had enough of them.

Fellow Democrats, you have been used.
In the 1970s, the Socialist Party of America said they would use the Democratic Party as their face to America after admitting they couldn’t turn America to socialism.

They did.
We have an election coming up.
We’re generally better educated.
Go do your research.
Decide.

No socialist EVER supported the values of freedom and equality we fought for and won for the USA.

Let’s not lose them now.

I have to come up with two essay questions that are to do with Hitler, Germany or Fascism.

Discuss the main cause of Hitler’s rise to power.
Assess if Hitler’s rise to power was the main cause of the Second World War.

I have to come up with two essay questions that are to do with Hitler, Germany or Fascism.

Discuss the main cause of Hitler’s rise to power.
Assess if Hitler’s rise to power was the main cause of the Second World War.

Discuss the differences and similarities between fascism and communism. Along with what factors were necessary for each to succeed.

You need to get past the ‘personalities’ we best remember as fascists (Hitler and Mussolini) and communists (Stalin). The reason for seeing beyond them is they ran dictatorships which did not necessarily reflect the ideologies they claimed to represent.

Fascism was right wing and somewhat akin to the populist movement of the like of Colonel Douglas of England and William Aberhart of Canada. In some ways F. D. R.’s New Deal reflected some aspects of Fascism as an economic plan to turn the economy around. (Hoover would be a better example, here, however.) Government would turn to industry to help achieve its goals of improving the standard of living and the economy.

Communism usually considers itself to be left of centre (yet there are some who described the Soviet attempt to create a ‘communist’ state as ‘right wing communism’). The people, through an uprising (revolution) take over control of all industry. All property is held ‘in common’ and the people have control over the raw materials, the labour and the amount produced. The intent is that all would have ample necessities of life. There would no longer be those simply existing on a subsistence lifestyle. Eventually the ’state’ would wither away.

This is an extremely basic response to your very involving question.

I feel like many societies such as Germany, Italy, USSR, etc. went through a period of fascism before coming into their present day, liberal forms, of universal health care and socialist practices. Is this true? Will the US go through this phase? Are we starting to see the beginning of that phase now with the Tea Partiers?

It is not a necessary phase but it is the desired end results of right winger ideology.

Maybe even some causes for the rise of fascism and militarism? Thanks!

The causes for the rise of militarism and fascism were Japan’s quest to get more material resources for their island nation. However, Japan did want to drive the Western Powers out of Asia and China in particular since they saw them as interfering in a hemisphere that they did not belong.

Japan’s primary expansion before the outbreak of World War 2 was in Manchuria, and other parts of China. Manchuria joined Korea as a Japanese protectorate part of the Japanese Empire.

Can anybody explain in simple terms what fascism is and how it can benefit a country?

Fascism is generally considered one of the more (if not most) extreme forms of conservatism (right wing), and was formed originally during WWI in Italy. It is a governmental system which destroys individualism, believes in the importance of war (and that it actually helps to vitalize the country), and most importantly gives the government complete control over the country (related to the first idea).
The government completely suppresses the "community" of people, regulating them completely, and allow absolutely no opposition (whether in or out of the country). They claim this to be the best way to represent the nation as a whole, united country.
The economic classes are destroyed in order to stabilize the economy.
It is related to totalitarian, nazism (less about the economic ideas and more about the social ones).

Those above are the facts, below are my opinions:

I have trouble understanding why it is placed on the right side of the spectrum, seeing as people are all put in one class both socially and economically (much like communism). The difference i see between communism and socialism is that there is a government and that it is all powerful (which is a step of the marxist conversion to socialism/communism). The important ideas of fascism are that the individual is an enemy (in the respect that their opinions and ambitions are viewed as counterproductive). In conservatism one of the key features is that the individual is one of the most important aspect of the nation and that it is each person’s opinion and especially ambitions (as for jobs, money, etc.) that drive the economy and social aspects of the nation, where those things are what sets each person apart from the other. In more left wing views a person’s drive and ambition are not a threat, but viewed as more irrelevant as you travel farther left. A person is merely a piece of the community puzzle who works not for himself (as that is viewed as selfish by left-wings) but for the good of the community with little to no concern for himself (yet again because that is seen as selfish).

Now to answer the second part of your question (and this obviously IS opinion, but i will try to be as non-biased as is possible):
Pros:
1)The government would have complete control over the people (which in my opinion is what they are currently moving towards in the U.S.A.), eliminating the annoyance of people’s opinion’s and oppositions. This would allow for the government to equalize the country’s economy supposedly (although in my opinion this wouldn’t work in any degree).
2)In a truly pure fascist state, any wars being fought would be taken much further than before and the enemy would be obliterated in a quicker time than would take in the average war. (I believe that unless the enemy is someone/thing which can’t be defeated via diplomacy, this could have devastating effects on the human race. This one is debatable a con)

Cons:
1)The idea of the individual is completely destroyed, thus destroying what makes humans human.
2)No person can gain or lose money, leading to an essentially neutral economy and no incentive to work. In my opinion money isn’t some greed causing evil thing, it is (in its simplest form) the representation of ability and effort. If a person works hours on end, developing a new idea or machine, they deserve to earn a larger amount of money than a janitor who cleans during the night shift and does nothing else. One side of this idea is the fact that if you are the one offering a product, idea, or service then you should have the right to rate the cost of this thing, and that those who wish to buy your product, idea, or service (or anything else im forgetting) have the full right to decide whether they want to spend that amount of money of the thing they are purchasing.
3)War isa huge part of fascism and it costs money, lives, and allies. The country’s economy is drained, human lives (perhaps the most important thing that exists from the perspective of humans) are lost, and allies (which may be necessary for future wars and especially he economy) can be lost irreparably. Having said this, when war is necessary (as to protect the human race/a nation) then it should not be shied away from, but fully involved in and fought as aggressively as is needed to end it as quick as possible.

What is the diffrence beetween fascism and nationalism?
i really need to know!

Nationalism is the belief that several different things, including territory, ethnicity, language, culture, and political governance, should all coincide. That is, for instance, that all people who are ethnically Brobdingnagian should speak Brobdingnagian, live in a place called Brobdingnagia, live like Brobdingnagians, and have their own country ruled by the Brobdingnagian government. Those who are not Brobdingnagian should leave or be assimilated, or perhaps get a country of their own and secede from Brobdingnagia.

This was a big shift from many states before the nineteenth century, when monarchs ruled by hereditary right no matter what the language or ethnicity of their subjects (even in France, Bretons, Normans, Provencals, Gascons, etc., did not think of themselves as all one "nation" until relatively modern times, though all knew they were subjects of the French crown — never mind Austria-Hungary).

Fascism is an extreme form of nationalism. It was formulated chiefly against communism in the 1920s. Communism argued that class, not nation, was what should really hold people’s loyalties and that the proletariat should act in concert across national boundaries in the name of revolution. It also held that all social hierarchies should be erased and a "classless" society formed by the revolution. Against these ideas, fascists held that the nation should hold people’s supreme loyalties, that the nation had a "spirit" which was the sum of its capabilities and values, and that this "spirit" was somehow expressed or vested in elite individuals who were therefore the nation’s natural and rightful leaders.