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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (448878)1/20/2009 2:37:10 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1575057
 
"Do you really believe the US would be so vulnerable to that, combjelly?"

Yes, I do. Unlike most of the developed countries, we have not experimented with authoritarians. And there are many with authoritarian tendencies, just look at the theory of the unitary executive. It isn't Fascism per se, but it certainly is a step along the road. Many of the religious fundamentalists like authoritarians also.

"I know we haven't gone through anything comparable to what the Germans went through in the 1920's"

No, we haven't. Yet there are those who feel that we don't get the respect we deserve from other countries. And that is one of the big engines of authoritarians. Look at Russia. Putin is walking that path, although his model is an older one, imperialism.
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