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Originally Posted by sglancy12
I don't think the authors intended the New Americans to represent the entire survivalist movement.
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I have to say that I cut GDW a little slack on the attaching of Facist/Nazi characteristics to New America as when they did it (mid to late 80s), it was not nearly the cliche that it is now. It was actually kinda novel back then (at least to me) and given the tone of some survivalist groups, potentially accurate..
In today's world you see the fact that the movie version of "Sum of All fears" change the villains from Palestinian terrorists to, you guessed it, neo Nazis. Even thought the origin or fissile materials they used was a lost Israeli bomb found in Syria. This just smacks of lazy writing or a desire not to be controversial. Nazis are just such an easy target.