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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TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

anything right of maxine walters is considered far right..
the healing will never start if liberals cant stop the name calling ..

SW-User

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Who is Maxine Walters? And American right-wing would basically be a party of Pauline Hansons, as far as I can gather.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

@SW-User yeah Pauline or Corey Bernadi..

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout It's not even remotely one sided. Hell, Dan alludes to it in the opening - because conservatives consider Obama a leftist.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

Btw dan. The Liberal party in Oz is supposed to be right leaning too. but Malcolm Turnbull has turned into Labor lite.. the not so leftist, leftist party..