Agreed.  Mention fascism to most folks and they'll automatically think of Adolph Hitler or Buenito Mussolini, goose-steppin' stormtroopers, Panzers runnin' through Paris, stuff like that, and it's out of their consciousness after that.

Do a Google search of fascism, and you'll quickly find that it is a blending of state and corporate power.  If that blending isn't exactly what is going on, and has been going on, in the United States, then well, we're all blind, deaf, dumb, and deserve every dead body we get over becoming a fascist police state right under our noses.

HARV

Fascist dictatorships were borne to power in each of these countries by big business, and they served the interests of big business with remarkable ferocity.