"What do you mean? We haven't had a republican in power for over 3 years."

I don't really see that as being decisive in turning the tide of facism in the US.

"Authoritarianism, especially in terms of social liberty, is a very right-wing ideology, would you not agree?"

Yes, however I don't beleive the democrats are left wing, in fact I think they're pretty centrist on most issues, or right of centre, or even right wing (I'm thinking of foreign policy there).

Let's look at some important moves towards facism that have occured under Obama:

1. The bailouts were carried out by Obama (although Bush had guaranteed them)

2. Nobody (in government at least) has done anything substantial to counter the loving coalition that still exists between big business and the government ( i.e. crony capitalism or facism by another name).

3. Obama signed into law the NDAA which allows the indefinite detention and arrest (without trial) of any US citizen suspected [by the goevrnment] of terrorism on US soil, and the subsequent transportation to Guantánamo Bay for indefinite detention without trial.

4. Obama signed off on the assassination of three US citizens, and in doing so made a mockerey of the US constitution, it's right of due process, the right of a fair trial etc.

I'm not even going to get into his foreign policy. But more importantly, what has Obama's government done to move away from Facism? Has the Patriot Act been repealed? What about the Bill of right or Habeas Corpus? Nothing has been done to reinstitute the freedoms lost under Bush, and whole lot has been done to destroy what little remains.

I don't beleive the rulers of US suddenly change their strategies and goals with a change in government from Democrat to Republican (or vice vearsa), the two party dictatorship is functioning better than it ever has as far as I can see.

"Well...thank you for apologizing. "

No problem, thank you for pointing out the error in that post, rest assured if I beleived the statement to be more true than untrue I would have defended it instead of capitulating with an apology.

"The vast majority of whom..."

Well I think that's a little bit more debatable, I will agree with "majority", but not "vast majority", and I would also like to add that beleiving you are doing the right thing does not make it so, and that (by-in-large) they only beleive in this corrupt ideology because their consent is manufactured by utilising necessary illusions.

"I agree. But I much prefer Obama over the GOP."

That maybe because you can't distinguish the rhetoric of Obama from the reality of Obama, however I will conceed that given a chioce between Obama and Bush, I would choose Obama, but I don't see the differences as being anything but cosmetic. Bush was a very unpopular president in the US, in Europe he was hated, and in the Arab world (and beyond) he was (literally) conisdered the devil incarnate.

I beleive it was recognised that something that (at least superficially) represented a drastic change was required, particularly in order to reach out to alienated imperial allies (or client states) in Europe, which are crucial for maintaining US hegemony.