Luna del'Corvo

It is easy to claim an administration you highly dislike is fascists, just as the right found it easy to call the left communist. It is easier to claim someone is "evil" than to try and understand why people support it. It certainly feeds the ego and sates feelings of loss, but it does nothing to either change administrations or rally people when true tyranny threatens.


An interesting point is much that I counter your feelings is simple history. The most common failing of people of any political stripe seeing gloom and doom is the lack of historical view. History did not begin the day we were born. Once you realize that you tend to see just how drastic fascists regimes were.

For my money the closest flirtation with something resembling fascism in the US in my lifetime wasn't the religious right but the Perot phenomena. Not that Perot himself was fascists (or maybe he was...I mean I voted for him and by many people's definitions I'm clearly a Nazi) but that his following could have been easily taken that way (when he said get "under the hood and fix things" I couldn't help but wonder if the trains would run on time). The natural American safeguard against that, the blatant stealing of passions by the major parties, functioned normally.