Exactly. More to the point, such meaningless slurs are an essential requirement for any budding totalitarian ideology: a few simple words and catchphrases for the rabble to chant. You remember the sheep in 1984 surely! This time round we can thank our work brethren for the degradation of language. The irony is, education has been dumbed down so much in the US that the people (mis)using words like fascist actually think they're quite intellectual.