Reply #12: We've been closer [View All]

[SteveG]

during the early 1950's, during the McCarthy Era, but there were significant differences between then and now. Primarily the media was far more diverse in ownership than it is today, and individuals or small companies owned most of the media outlets of the period. Today only a few large media concerns control 80% or more of all media outlet's, and being large corporations, they do not have the sense of personal responsibility nor personal honor, that the media outlet owners of yesteryear had towards their readership.

I also think it's a mistake to look for a Nazi style Facism, look more to the style of a Mussilini, or maybe a Franco, or a Chiang Kai Chek, with far more Corporate/Religious influence than was evident in Hitler's Germany.