Is US a Fascist Country?

1. Your president asserts the right to ignore part or all of laws passed by the national legislature.
   Massive warrantless searches


2. 
   Your president and other officials regularly lie to you Fraudulent election counts
   


3. Government monitoring of letters, emails, phone calls and checking accounts
   Secret courts


4. 
   A government subservient to the interests of the country's largest corporations.
   Use of torture on prisoners


5. 
   Courts that support presidential use of unconstitutional powers
   Massive spying on citizens, especially those involved in political dissent
   A government that uses words like democracy, freedom and peace while engaging in acts dramatically at odds with such words
   Government agencies or officials declaring themselves exempt from portions of the law or constitution
   Creation of watchlists, no-fly lists and similar exclusionary documents
   National ID cards
   Growing number of citizens incarcerated for a growing number of offenses
   Massive use of cameras to spy on citizens
   A media supportive of, or obsequious towards, the government in covering its police state activities
   Security bubble around government leaders' public appearances including preselected audiences and limit on proximity of protests
   Disarming of citizenry
   Dissent characterized as disloyal by government and its supporting media
   Increasing government control over private behavior
   Lack of legal recourse to stop illegal government actions
   Prison without trial and arrests without charges
   It is difficult to borrow books from libraries pertaining to controversial subjects such as, communism,socialism,and, fascism.
   Transfer of powers from legislatures to executive
   Assassinations of popular public figures
   Expansion of prisons and laws that lead people to prisons
   President claims right to make war whenever he wants
   Words misused to mean their opposite: i.e. peace for war, democracy for fascism
   The president sets himself up as the sole moral authority for the entire country, using his personal beliefs as the basis on which to declare what is 'good' and what is 'evil.'
   Federal takeover of functions formerly considered essential state or local responsibilities such as state militias and public education
   Creation of a mercenary military force used for foreign and domestic purposes