the outcome of the election

[Chaerophon]

Complete self contradiction. When you make that comparison, you try to fit a horseshoe onto a cow.

Kind of like comparing the Democratic Party to the Bolsheviks? Bush would like to change the constitution so as to legislate morality. I'm not arguing that that is top-down totalitarianism, a central facet of the movements that you mentioned. However, it runs closer to that characteristic of the far Right than does a tax rollback to the far Left. That was my only point, and I think that it is a fair one. Cripes, Kerry is adamantly opposed to government administered health care! No self-respecting socialist could hold such a position. I was merely trying to make a point, not argue that Bush was a Fascist - I don't think that he is the next Mussolini.

I understand your point re: the American political spectrum; however, there hasn't been even a mildly Socialist Party in the US for 70(?) years or so, and my point was that Socialism is really not anywhere to be found in American politics.