I'll give you that the current political climate in America does bear some strong resemblances to fascism, but the US is still NOT a totalitarian state. You didn't equate Bush to Hitler, I was just saying that this would be a similarly qualified comparison. The USA today = a totalitarian fascist state is as strong an argument as George W Bush = Adolf Hitler, and both arguments typically get made by the same people around the same time.
It's not a similar comparison, because for one I don't believe Bush has the power, whereas Hitler was the fuhrer, Bush is only a puppet.
Actually I'd even go further than that, it's a slap in the face of the people who believe they actually have a choise. It's like the ppl that are really in power are saying with Bush,:"Docile masses do you really believe this idiot is the most powerful man in the world?Can't you see yet that we're fucking with you?If you still have any doubts that the president is the man in charge, the one who has the real power, then we give you BushII"
I actually think that giving the public the illusion of choise makes it even more totalitarian. At least in a recognised totalitarian regime the people don't take the media too seriously. They know it's all propaganda. In a 'free country' where the president is chosen 'democratically' they'll tend to believe whatever they hear. Coz afterall the media is free and the news you get is objective, right?
Anyway, if we were a totalitarian state then the Democratic party would have been disbanded by now. Hitler turned Germany into a one-party state two months after becoming Chancellor. Can you imagine that happening in the US? As much as the Republicans might try to marginalize the opposition party, that didn't stop the Dems from retaking Congress during the last midterms. If this were a totalitarian state that would not have happened.