Reply #37: We do have a fascistic government. We don't have fascism or reaction comparable to Germany's

[jpgray]

I get peeved when people separate out general methods for comparison while ignoring their contexts, and their magnitude. Yes, in 20s-40s Germany and in the US people are imprisoned without regard to the rule of basic law, but the -magnitude- and the methods of such in Germany were far beyond what we are experiencing here. Yes, Germany went down a road of totalitarianism, but theirs was an entirely different road than the one we are marching down. It's not so much correct descriptions of our dangerously authoritarian government that get to me, it's facile comparisons between our situation and historical situations that ignore the crucial contextual differences that made each situation possible.