Amos,

I don't know about all the details that may have changed in the USA, but I can say I personally have felt much more threatened by American politics under president Reagan.

That doesn't mean I find present US politics good. Internationally, they are dangerous in the long run, disregarding truth and international institutions, and the most dangerous, setting a bad precedent by preventing a group of people having a right to trial and lawyers. I have supported the politics up to Afghanistan which I still consider a necessary response. Iraq was when they went astray.

For interior politics, I don't know enough, but the fact that you can vote your government out of power very soon is one of the 'minor' things different in comparison with fascism. It's only nine more months, isn't it?

Wolfgang