Continuing the idea mentioned in EuroFascism, I suggest that the American version is more likely to take the 'classic' road to fascism, by drumming up hatred of muslims. In a couple of days time, Americans are going to start burning Korans in honour of those who died 9 years before in the World Trade Center attacks. Putting aside the fact that many of those who died weren't Christian (and there were in fact innocent Muslims in that building), and assuming that it was even a Muslim Extremist plot at all (see Loose Change), it seems like a pretty backward way of criticising religious extremism by BEING EXTREMIST! Muslims might burn US flags at protests, but they never burn bibles.
Of course, the fact that it is the ninth anniversay of the attacks means that inkeeping with numerology, they'll have to start the burning at 11am - and when they do, they will have lit the fires on a race-war in the US.
Coupling this with the already controversial ban on building a mosque 'close to' the Trade Center site, American's will be painting yellow cresents on the doors of Muslim-owned businesses within the week.It could be argued that America has been Nazi since the 1930's. Hitler was a big fan of the US Eugenics program (selective breeding - you needed a licence to marry, and you could only keep your children if you had been given the licence). George W Bush's grandfather was dealing with the Nazi's even after it was made illegal (and that's why the two George's had enough money to run for president). IBM and Coca Cola, among others, owe their success to trading with the Nazi's. So let's imagine that before joining the war, the American's made a deal with the Nazi's - we'll pretend to beat you, and then we'll help you rebuild and take Europe, if you help us become the world's greatest superpower.
Conclusion - Europeans respect a more subtle form of fascism, but the Americans want a gun-swinging, Muslim-killing variation.
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