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To: Oblomov who wrote (63273)	5/3/2005 11:03:59 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The US in the 19-teens and 1920's was not immune to the forces of fascism sweeping the world at the time. The KKK of that era was out in the open, promoting the "virtues" of white Protestantism and the superiority of those native-born rather than immigrants. It is said (probably no way to prove) that President Harding was inducted into the KKK while in office. Coolidge may have also been a sympathizer, while Truman belonged to the KKK in his youth, as did Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, although both repudiated it later. Actually this reminds me quite a bit of what's going on in China these days. Nativism, nationalism, hostility to "the other" and quite a bit of displacement of these characteristics onto "the other." The rich irony that a fascist Japan attacked China is not lost on me, nor, I hope, you. I believe that the US is the only country that flirted with fascism but did not succumb, for which we may credit (your pick) Roosevelt or WWII.