Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
I cannot argue that what you say is impossible. I can assert that USA culture, from inception to present, does NOT lend itself to such. A tyranny of the majority would have to be profound majority to re-cast things in a fascist mold given our system. And yes, it is the cultural difference above all that spells the difference.

Different places, with different traditions and cultural views HAVE taken the "boot on the neck" approach and used it successfully for decades at a stretch. That is why I expressed myself as I did -- I am not going to claim that I am so knowledgeable of your culture that I could judge the rightness of such laws in that context. I only expressed reservations.
I'm not convinced this is as true as we would like it to be. At inception the U.S. had slavery, it had a bloody civil war, various fiddling with elections in South America, racial segregation, and most closest to the current situation was the era of Joseph McCarthy.

Just replace Joseph McCarthy rhetoric of Reds with Muslims and the current situation could easily devolve into a similar situation.