Which, as a model, is closer?

[Stinky The Clown]

I'm not suggesting the country is any one of these, particularly. What I'm asking for is your view of which one of these is closest to wher we are today?

[HereSince1628]

1. Hmmm, you've got no south American juntas to chose from.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Seriously...the neocons have...

...big, scary, warmongering goals--but they bungle everything they touch.

These trailer-trash thugs like to pretend that they're important and dark. However,
their first conquest (Iraq) was supposed to open the door to their world domination
plan. We all see how well that's going.

I'd say....the current state of our government is more like a three-ringed circus being
run by The Three Stooges.

Don't give these imbeciles too much credit.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Keystone Kops

While chasing after the bad guys, all they can do is run around in circles and bump in to each other. Meanwhile, the villans make good their escape.


The problem is, the Keystone Kops are korrupt, and the villans they should be chasing are themselves.

[MADem]

5. Ah, and here we have the Head Stooge In Charge, Moe Bush!

[Totally Committed]

6. Your pic made me laugh... and gave me the

"Moe Bushie Blues"... :rofl:

TC

Note to Stinky: This is a very depressing poll. I'll come back when I can vote and NOT think about my answer too long....

[The2ndWheel]

3. Globalist America

We don't have to use force(although we clearly do use it) in the same way Stalin or Hitler did. Can't really, it's a different world. We screw with your mind more. Not saying Russia or Germany didn't do that, but we do it better. And as we learn more about the brain in this century, we'll only improve on our enhanced ability to mind fuck you.

[pansypoo53219]

7. i gotta go nazi

as georgie has started 2 wars. one unjustified in hindsight. but then even i knew sadaam didn't have WMD. and he wants to take on iWan too. instigated israels over reach in lebenon.

[MercutioATC]

8. I'd say Italy, but

at least Mussolini managed to make the trains run on time.

Bush can't even do that.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. There is no settling the precedence between a louse and a flea.

None of those have anything much in common with modern America. In all of those, the state was virtually worshipped and its power stretched as far as possible; the American right abominate it and regard all state intervention except the army and the police as evil.

[Cerridwen]

10. Corporatism - closest might be Italian fascism, however,

we're not just run by corporations, but by a hierarchy of corporations with the Military Industrial Complex at or near the top with international banking just at or above MIC. Aided and abetted by the corporate media which helps to market corporate ideals to the masses.

Now that we've all been properly educated that Capitalism is the Holy Grail of economic systems and corporations their temples, anything done in the name of business is promoted as acceptable if it contributes to the "bottom line." If that means people go without pensions, health care or a livable wage, so be it, as profit is King in the hierarchy. If that means blaming lack of jobs on immigrants rather than on corporations who have outsourced, merged and downsized their workers to the point of one worker doing the job of 6, so be it. It's not that the corporations have done anything wrong; I mean, it increased their profits, right? Just ask Forbes.

I remember when departments who did hiring and benefits went from being called "personnel" to "human resources" thereby giving validity to thinking of people as resources. Recently, there was a job posting at craigslist for a Scottsdale, AZ position. The title: "human commodities director". Now people are even less than resources and have become commodities. Next step down? Cog? Then slave?

[petronius]

11. I think apartheid South Africa deserves consideration...

Just from your list, I'd go with Italy.