Reply #80: the level of American support for what the population feels

[tigereye]

are just wars does not seem to me to be comparable to the rabid, highly structured propagandic manipulations of that period. This is not the depression era, and Americans are not desperate and hungry; they are pragmatists- look at the lack of support for this war as it becomes more and more unwieldy and expensive. You also have to remember that our country was "attacked" on some level and most people born after the 40s had never encountered anything like that here.

No one has disbanded any major political institution and installed a puppet, we still have elections and functioning institutions. Maybe * et al have fascistic qualities, but America is not a fascist country and this is not a dictatorhip. That kind of hyperbole is absurd.