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I would say the ethics of humanity as a whole. it may be hard to find someone with a true ethical backbone who supports Israel. But with every reputable journalistic outlet supporting this level of blatant war criminality it seems that in the mainstream sense at least, ethics have devolved a century in the last 50 years. Yes some people like us see a duck and call it a duck. But you cant really say that is the direction the field of ethics has headed in this time regardless of what people are being taught in ethics classes. When all the major news outlets (circularly owned by the same bunch of wall street military and prison industry profiteers) are entirely unethical then isn't it fair to say the concept of ethical behavior in our society has certainly regressed?
Where ethics matter are where they are put into practice and it seems obvious to me that ethics as a school of philosophy/social silence does not have a meaningful role in the actions of our leaders and the news outlets insulating them from consequence at every turn. Ethics have taken a back seat to continuous growth and corporate militsrism.
- I wouldn't call journalists the heart of the field either. We certainly don't think of them as political scientists, philosophers, or economists.
  
  True, but for many people who do not know any better they are the arbiters of reality.
  
  Yeah, that's something we need to change.
  
  Need to attack the problem at the root, corporatism which is a synonym of fascism. Personally I don’t see a solution to fix things that doesn't involve violent revolution. Even if enough of the bottom 70% of workers could all get together and strike, at minimum 35% of the bottom initiating a general strike that will continue until terms are met. But even then i feel that will lead to violent militarized suppression from the owner class who will force people striking to work. Those in power have made a real mess of things.
  
  Please stop calling everything fascism. Plain old Authoritarianism is bad too. Corporations don't want a cult of personality or huge rallies. They want people disengaged and hopeless.
  I also disagree about the necessity of violence. If we get enough of a movement they can't just resort to violence. Most of the modern movements have been by mass of people in the street.
  
  I call fascism fascism and that is what we now have, the intersection of corporate and military industrial power controlling our government and using their media outlets to spread propaganda. Fascism is marked by; the protection of corporate power, the suppression of labor power, controlled Media disseminating propaganda, disdain for human rights, disdain towards intellectualism, unification over a scapegoated class of people as a common enemy, rampant corruption and cronyism/nepotism, obsession with crime & punishment, powerful displays of nationalism, government and a preferred religion intertwining, normalized sexism, glorification of militarism, a surveillance state with militarized police forces who use secret police under the pretense of national security, and fraudulent elections. These are all the defining characteristics of fascism. And the only one of those you can argue may not be present is the last one but i would even argue that its very likely our national presidential elections have been fraudulent ever since FDR died.
  
  You forgot a cult of personality, a belief in collective action, and state control of corporations and religion.
  A fascist would tell you there's no need to suppress labor because the party takes care of it's workers. Likewise worries about human rights are overblown because the people understand they're part of a grand nationalist project. The chosen enemy of a fascist state is dissidents of any race. You're confusing Fascism with Nazism here.
  There's a lot there that's also Authoritarian. Such as the secret police, displays of military power (less for pride, more as a warning), fraudulent elections, corruption and nepotism, and controlled media.
  In many ways Fascism is just a populist form of Authoritarianism; An Authoritarian state where the people cheer for the death squads. The chosen enemy is the trait that stands Nazism apart. Mussolini and other Fascists did not share Hitler's belief in racial superiority.
  The biggest argument against the US being Authoritarian (much less Fascist) right now is the continued existence of independent media and the Democratic Party. Also, despite claims to the contrary elections are pretty good in the US. We really did just choose the bad option. Nobody guaranteed any of the above with Democracy. We were always free to vote for the bad stuff. Democracy guarantees nothing but the ability to vote.

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