WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul says he sees Americans giving up more and more of their rights as the United States slides toward "soft fascism."
"We're not moving toward Hitler-type fascism," the Texas congressman said Sunday on PBS' "Bill Moyers Journal," referring to the German leader from the 1930s and '40s, "but we're moving toward a softer fascism. Loss of civil liberties, corporations running the show, big government in bed with big business. So you have the military-industrial complex, you have the medical-industrial complex, you have the financial industry, you have the communications industry. That's where the control is. I call that a soft form of fascism, something that is very dangerous."