(March 3, 2016 at 8:08 pm)Aractus Wrote: The whole reason that the USA is a complete fucking joke is that their far-right have had the better part of two centuries to work out that their policies don't work the way they would like, and regardless they still base their policies on ideology rather than reason and empirical evidence.
My theory is that the political system stopping fascism from taking hold in the US because there are too many checks and balances means that the movement never dies away either. People in Germany for example know exactly what fascism is and how to spot it when it rears its head. Add to this a poor education and America being so large that it provides everything that an American could want, this can lead to an insular mentality that means that they are less likely to learn about the historical mistakes made by other countries which seem really far away.
