fascism/communism, the further you go from center the more tyranny you get--either Left or Right. Thats why the two party pendulum system = fail. We need a party for the 80% of Americans that aren't socialists in either form.
I have to make a comment here... a continuum with socialism on both ends of the continuum is not a continuum at all. The middle ground is still socialism.
Let's reframe our thinking and replace our paradigm with something that will allow something other than the lesser of two evils:
Place communism and fascism at one end of the spectrum where the government controls the ecomony and the resources, either by hook or by crook, and economic/political freedom and free markets at the other end.
Now we can have a meaningful discussion.