How to make a fascist state
Lesson 1:
Begin by finding scapegoats, good examples are the poor, the sick, the disabled, the elderly.
Then find a cultural, religious or racial group to blame your own failings upon. Especially when you are skimming off the national budgets. These also are an ace distraction for your corruption.
Target all of the above to create division
Use the media, press, and all the propaganda machine at your disposal.
Use blue on blue attacks and acts of terror to create fear. Fear will allow new legislation to officially eradicate any rights your citizens believe they still have.
Build up military, they are your buffer zone between the aware and the sheep.
Normalise death and cruelty, supporting rather than opposing other nation states committing genocide is always a good way.
Vilify other nations, threaten your population with imaginary threats of invasion or war, using the vilified nations as faux enemies. Increase the threat level by posturing against nations with superior military assets.
Ally with other dictatorships, especially fascist ones.
Promote hard work, make people out of work seem lazy and useless, then blame them for more cuts, also a tired workforce is an apathetic workforce. Do all this whilst stocking up on weapons. Especially nuclear. These will stop international intervention.
Cut all support for the weak and vulnerable.
Invent terror organisations, and proscribe any opposing pressure groups as terrorist
Criminalise demonstrations
Criminalise opposing thoughts
Criminalise free speech
Criminalise and imprison all who stand against you
Infiltrate any opposing political parties and grab power in their name but without their morals.
Declare marshal law
Declare a dictatorship
Kill all opposition
Create more fear
Employ even more police and army
Build more prisons
Well this government seems more than half way through lesson one.
Next lesson, this will be coming soon: A ow to guide to ensure your Reich actually lasts a thousand years.
Jonesy, simply a human 