Characteristics of Fascism: How many can you find?

Depressing, isn't it? I look at this list of Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism, and I find far too many quite common in the U.S., today. (I'm not going to point them out--that's an exercise for the reader.) That we are ostensibly the "shining beacon of freedom in the world" either says something very bad about our world, or that we are NOT a shining beacon any longer. For my money, we've just become a place where freedom has gone to die. So, the terrorists HAVE won, I guess.

You know, I'd almost rather have a creationist like Ron Paul--a staunch Libertarian--than a more mainstream conventional politician, like Obama. Of course, I'm not ready to write him off, just yet.