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Your metaphor made sense to me; but I would say McCain is 160 and Obama 158. Incidentally, the USA today is a fascist state. If it's not, give me examples of fascist states and explain in what sense they differ from the USA.
I believe it is an "insult to history" to use certain words in situations far different than what occurs during their true nature.
Many Marxists would say, for example, that America is a "slave nation", as its workers are exploited, and we ultimately work for the capitalist class Using such an expression, however, is an insult to the many slaveries such as the one employed by the Egyptians thousands of years ago, and the Incan, European, and North American slavery a few hundred, or one hundred fifty years ago.
Many Marxists argue that America is a right-wing religious nation. While I don't deminish the power of such forces, if this were the actual case, and the nation were such, McCain would have won the election, and the religious right would not be allowed to look so impotent, as they have since 2006.
I view Italy in the 30s a fascist state. If you believe the USA is the same, you and I have vastly different views on how to define the term, and, without trying to start an argument, our frame of reference is so far apart, there's no point in the discussion.
Vermont has elected to its state house, more than one Democratic Socialist party member, and this would clearly be prevented in a fascist government.
Revleft.com is alive and well, and not shut down. There are newspapers in the U.S. that support workers rights, and even attack the capitalist class.
I suppose, in my opinion, THE biggest "proof" the USA is not fascist, is that over the past 4 years, May Day, a total joke throughout the nation's history, is now a genuine holiday, bringing, now, hundreds of thousands of workers to the streets.
I just don't use that word to describe the USA, mainly because it makes our cause look "dumb", as if we don't know the difference between a nation ruled 80% by a corporate class, and one that looks like Hitler's Germany.
There's an episode of the Sopranos, where a federal judge asks Junior Soprano if he would wear a leg identificatoin device during his house arrest. His response is, "Sounds like Nazi Germany." To which the judge replies, "You obviously don't know your history."