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"rule by private interests was ascendant, and they enforced that rule by law and arms. If you didn’t actually walk out the door, you could imagine that the United States resembled Italy under Mussolini."
It’s true that the U.S. may be a police state – as anyone who protests against the WTO will find in out in short, ugly order – but it is not, for most people, a totalitarian state. People tolerate, or actively embrace, corporate rule not primarily because they’re cowed by the police, but because they aspire to the promised gifts of the program."

2007-06-16 01:52:46 · 4 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

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Courage to raise the issue. Conditioning. Place a frog into a pan of hot water, the frog jumps out. Place the frog into a pan of room temperature water, and gradually raise the heat; the frog will die.
It seems to have always been this way; history revised, facts excised. Alas.

2007-06-16 03:09:13 · answer #1 · answered by pedro 6 · 2 0

If anything, government in the US is the exact opposite of fascism. We still elect officials. We still have the rule of law. We have freedom.

2007-06-16 08:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0 1

Good lord, do you even know what fascism is?
The answer to your question is NO.

2007-06-16 09:56:23 · answer #3 · answered by pepper 7 · 0 2

if that communist woman running for president wins the us will become a communist country

2007-06-16 08:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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