Very true. I tried for years to explain to people on the Left and the Right what fascism really meant - to no avail. They've just reimagined it as "those other guys we hate."

Plutocracy is very much a good box to put all what's happening in. Heading for a new feudalism, I imagine, once the richest have taken even from the less-rich and don't have to pretend to adhere to government any longer.