The Fourteenth Point of Fascist Regimes

[Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Professor Laurence Britt's analysis of the basic characteristics of
seven modern Fascist regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link
them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power.
 (Free Inquiry
magazine, Volume 23, Number 2).  The list concludes
with:

14. Fraudulent elections. Elections in the form of plebiscites
or public opinion polls were usually bogus. When actual elections with
candidates were held, they would usually be perverted by the power
elite to get the desired result. Common methods included maintaining
control of the election machinery, intimidating and disenfranchising
opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a
last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite.