Baraka_Guru

I agree with you. My point is that we shouldn't compare Nazism and Italian fascism to U.S. ideologies... the conditions from which fascism sprang no longer exist. These right-wing ideologies have no influence in America, especially if we consider them unchanged ideas that have somehow survived into the 20th century; otherwise, all the social upheaval that happened in the sixties wouldn't have been possible.

If fascism (as it was known) is the case in the U.S., its citizens would have much greater difficulty ridiculing or criticizing the nation's leaders.

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