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   From: rgorman@telusplanet.net   
      
   Charles Barber wrote:   
   >   
   > Depends on how you define fascism..   
      
   Fascism is a system in which an individual or small committee rules   
   with dictatorial power, demanding at least a show of enthusiastic   
   patriotism from everyone.  It glorifies military and police power   
   and suppresses even peaceful dissent through force.  Despite this,   
   it preserves private enterprise for use in making the nation the   
   stronger.   
      
   Babylon 5 had President Clarke,   
   > Paranoid, thinking everyone is out to get him.. sets up his political base   
   > as a method of keeping himself in power, and eliminating any threat to his   
   > power. ( Basically, I have all the power, I make all the decisions). In the   
   > Trek Universe, Earth might be run by a intellectual elite, of political   
   > appointees who make decisions based on "the best interests" of the people of   
   > earth ( Kinder friendlier benevolent dictatorship, we know what is best for   
   > our people ( we can`t trust the ordinary citizen, to make the right choices   
   > for himself, we are here to help him, for his own good ).   
      
   There is no particular reason to think that Trek's Earth doesn't have   
   elected leadership.  But if it has what you suggest, then that is   
   technocracy.   
      
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