there are a thousand other responses besides military adventurism. some of them were used along side of it, including increased surveillance of innocent people, criminalizing vast swathes of the populace, and restricting movement of people and money.
you don't need to "bend over and take it". you could very well figure out whether maybe we did something to cause it, and fix the underlying issues.
it's really bizarre that you enumerated the things you think make a fascist, and when i showed you that, in fact, the usa is fascist, you have now actually accepted it, and instead of trying to do something about it, you're response is that it could be worse, so you're just going to vote for the status quo fascists.
he voted for every military intervention for the last 50 years, sometimes grandstanding on making them happen
i don't know about the undemocratic holding of power: i'm pretty sure that the appearance of democracy is a desirable trait for any authoritarian regime, but when less than half the eligible populace votes, how can you claim any government is democratic?
the same rhetoric from 2016 that led to us getting Trump as president, which we’ll be feeling the pain of for generations.
50 years of democrats helping guide the country got us trump. hell, hillary made sure trump was her opponent in the general. the democrat party is what got us trump in 2016, along with all the people who voted for him.
that's what leftists are saying, and that's why they are saying not to vote for democrats, too. it's like you're saying if we don't vote for mussolini, we'll get hitler. well i'm not voting for either of them.
civil only needs a preponderance of evidence. criminal requires beyond a reasonable doubt. but even that isn't high enough, in my opinion, to justify the government taking away peoples' freedom.
your wikipedia definition is the same one i'd use to support my case so maybe one of us is politically illiterate.