Well, sure we are - how do you think a large number of folks on Bush Republic vote? One evil is a collectivist more of the fascist persuasion, while another evil is an outspoken, class-warfare practicing socialist. But we can't let the socialist get in, so we vote fascist. Parsing, compartmentalizing and consensus-based dialectic thinking is what these people do best.
While I agree that this is Bush Republic, (and I'm not too happy about it), Bush is not a fascist. Makes for nifty airheaded sloganeering, but ain't no where near the facts.
"Fascist movements usually try to retain some supposedly healthy parts of the nation’s existing political and social life, but they place more emphasis on creating a new society. In this way fascism is directly opposed to conservatism—the idea that it is best to avoid dramatic social and political change. Instead, fascist movements set out to create a new type of total culture in which values, politics, art, social norms, and economic activity are all part of a single organic national community. In Nazi Germany, for example, the fascist government in the 1930s tried to create a new Volksgemeinschaft (people’s community) built around a concept of racial purity. "
Facsism is an economic and cultural control phenomenon that seeks to prevent conservativism, usurp a nations existing cultural traditions, and hand economic control of the nation to the government, while still 'allowing' private ownership. Outside of loony leftist educational facilities, and the mainstream press, no one equates Republicanism with fascism. In fact the Demonkratic party is much closer to fascism than socialism. It almost exactly fits the course the Demons wish to put us on.
We are developing an American Fascism, but it's the Demonkrats that are running full speed in that direction, the Republicans are merely sauntering.