Fascism?

The dictionary defines fascism as having these integral parts: (nationalism, censorship, authoritarianism, militarism, corporatism, totalitarianism, collectivism, anti-liberalism, anti-communism). I do not automatically equate liberal with socialist/communist, though I understand the argument that extreme economic liberalism leads to socialism leads to communism. I think getting worked up about the shitty lives of poor, lazy, incompetent, underacheiving, handout-taking, irresponsible, undisciplined people would be a waste of my time. As discussed before, the cost proportion of welfare compared to other items in the federal budget is like comparing a pound to a ton. Not saying it's a super excellent great idea that should be expanded, just that it is an issue that gets way more attention than it deserves. The most drastic slashing of welfare spending was signed into law by a liberal president who also campaigned on the issue.
I don't see how anyone can think this president is not actively divisive when he says a vote for the opposition is a vote for the terrorists. I think the record-setting number of presidential signing statements Bush has used to disregard laws is cowardly, authoritarian, and offensive to our democracy. The FISA law passed by Congress in 1978 requires oversight when wiretapping American citizens - this law has been violated for more than 5 years. Conveniently, the day before the enabling republicans lost control of Congress last month, the administration said it will now use oversight, and that there was no need to prosecute past crimes. What a load of shit (like a rapist telling a judge don't send me to jail, cuz my rapin' days are over). No one is arguing not to wiretap terrorists, just do it legally and use oversight. You can't value transparency in goverment and also support this secretive and incompetent administration. Subpoenas are the mechanism Congress uses to check the executive branch. The republican Congress in the 90's sent over 1,000 supoenas to Bill Clinton (average one a day) - that is checks and balances. Throughout indefinite suspension of habeas corpus, illegal wiretapping, adoption of torture, massive intelligence failures, preemtive invasion of a country that was never a threat to us and not behind 9/11, disappearing people to secret prisons in Syria, the total number of subpoenas sent to dubya in six years was exactly zero. There has been no oversight at all on King George. I am not endorsing the democratic party; I am saying we must not reward an incompetent presidency dripping with cronyism, who is fighting islamic terrorism symbolically instead of strategically. I'm not blaming every single problem in the world on the president. But I think silence on these issues of creeping fascism would offend my hero TR.