Are Americans really so right-wing nowadays that fascists and anti-fascists are equivalent?

I'm really confused. I mean, I know that the Cold War had a major impact on American politics, shifting it to the right slowly as the fear/hatred of communism took hold in a big way throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It's just hard to imagine that someone like Obama would be considered "socialist" or "communist" when in most of the world he'd be a regular conservative. And now they seem to defend fascists, the thing their grandparents fought an entire war against and witnessed the horrors of first hand.

WTF, America?

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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

First tell me what fascists and how they are being defended

SW-User

@Jackaloftheazuresand I'm referring to those white supremacists that did that march thing. In situations like that, claiming that "many sides" are at fault when no evidence exists to prove that claim is an implicit approval of such people.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

Many sides were to blame for the violence, the incident was one side but fights broke out and were caused by both the main groups. The thing is everybody takes that speech to be about that one event only when it was really a linked opportunity to call out every group that does wrong instead of having to wait for a left specific attack.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Jackaloftheazuresand Only one side is a well organized network of white supremacy groups that wants to create a white ethno-state through violence and civil war. Fuck em with a rusty pickaxe.

Thankfully, the American people gave a proper response the following week - and last weekend.