Quote Originally Posted by Veldan Rath View Post
I'm gonna back up and re-start at EK's question about Nazi Germany and Dread's sidestep.

The question wasn't really the fall of civilization, but if the US could decline into something similar to a horrid State as Nazi Germany. Again, such a rapid decline is improbable. For the US, with social media and today's culture such a decline would need to be in small bites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VgrktRgjBXk
Except that's not how totalitarian regimes come to power. It's always in one fell swoop. You're trivializing the horrors perpetrated by all the totalitarian regimes in the world by suggesting that the US is even a hundred steps away from that same fate.