Our current economic policies are about as close to Fascism as any I've seen in my life.
Criticism of Hitler easily rolls off every American's tongue -- but we fail to see that we have met the enemy and he is us.
We say: Not me! I voted for McCain! or I'm a Reagan man! -- but there were lots of Germans who said that stuff too. People get swept up in national forces, and pretty soon we're shrugging and watching the neighbor send their children to the Youth Camp and we say "How did we get here?"
The death toll in Europe for W.W.II (1939 - 1945) was circa 35 million, of whom 7 million were Germans, 6 million were Jews, and 20 million (non-Jewish) Soviet citizens.
Among Germans, 20% of the dead were civilians, and among all the others, well over 50% of the dead were civilians.
However bad our situation today is, it doesn't even remotely resemble the suffering those poor folks endured!