VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent

[Terrance]

> 
> My intention is to get out of the text what's within. What I don't get out
> of it is your blind eye to the crimes of the federal agents and the state
> that is presented in the novel. The novel depicts a -fictional- reality that
> seemed to require a counterforce, may it have failed or not. I don't think
> that many Americans would admit that America's been so dangerouly close
> to fascism as the novel tells.

The USA has never been dangerously close to fascism. It has never had a
dictator. 
No government in the USA, not even  FDR's government during the Great
Depression and the Second World War, was dangerously close to fascism.
Strict social and economic control by a centralized government,
suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, a policy of
belligerent nationalism and racism, these are simply not part of the
history of USA.  Look to Germany, The Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Italy,
Japan, lots of other nations, but not the USA. Pynchon novels may be
read as warnings: what can happen there, could happen to US. But to
argue that the USA was dangerously close to fascism under Nixon or
Reagan or Carter of Clinton or any other president, including FDR, is
reason without reason.