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    Americans don’t know what facism is.

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      or liberalism, socialism, communism or any number of other -isms.

      I would put money on many of them not really being able to define a democracy or republic. Their level of political awareness is [generally] staggeringly low.

      They pretty much glaze over with anything more complicated than “blue team left, red team right”.

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        “Right wing is when you’re Christian, left wing is when you’re gay”.