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back: "There is not a history of America accepting totalitarian regimes of any stripe"...there are those of us who believe that the regime of Lincoln, the great usurper, was about as totalitarian a central government as any yet to emerge in this country or canada.

"The histories and circumstances of the countries that fell to fascism in the 1930's were vastly different than America."...I beg to differ... in the 1930's most of the western industrialized world was suffering from the affects of the great depression. political opportunist here attempted to place the blame on political and ethnic minorities, such as, the american nazi/facist moment, the communist party and of course some readily identifiable minorities, such as blacks and jews...

a major difference between us and europeans is the level of expectation we have of our leaders. in europe, there is a long history of the people expecting their leaders to provide for them. it is generally referred to as socialism...in this country, we have a long history of self reliance. until recently, we mostly wanted our leaders to protect us from enemies, both domestic and foreign; and little else...when citizens of a country become so dependent on their government, that their very lively hood depends on the policies of the government, then the seeds are sown for political opportunist such as hitler and mussolini, to come to power by promising to do for us what we are no longer capable for doing for ourselves...sadly, this is the road we have been traveling so far in this twenty first century.