EXCELLENT post, Midchuck!

Akenaton - Those are interesting and radical theories you have proposed there about the Clintons and Obama. I don't know if you're right or not, but cut that passage out and stick it on your fridge...then check back with me in 4 years and we'll see if you were right.

What is required to enact a successful fascist takeover is a messianic and overwhelming sense in its ardent supporters that they have the moral high ground...and that they are opposing a great and terrible evil, which demands that emergency measures be taken. There is then the willingness on the part of the generally supportive public to endure those unpleasant "emergency" measures until the crisis passes....but it never does! The crisis remains, and it gets worse. And so do the emergency measures. And that's when the body count starts to rise dramatically as the "great and terrible evil" which was invented by the fascist movement is ruthlessly attacked by the ruling $ySStem.

You can do it with either corporatism, capitalism, communism or socialism. Doesn't really matter. The same basic procedures apply.