There is also another issue I want to address. None of these candidate are or ever will be "totalitarian" leaders.
1. US is divided between 3 branches and within 2 of those branches the power is divided even further. Within the executive branch there agencies that do have power of executive legislation (orders and directives) but most can not have direct effect on citizens, just on the way these agencies do business. Law enforcement, taxes, intelligence, and all other agencies are purposely designed to have overlapping duties and roles that force these agencies to compete/share with each other and so none can dominate all aspects of its larger role. For example the IRS deals with income taxes and corporate taxes, while the FTC will deals trade, and still even more diversifying its EFTPS handles the moving of the money in the tax system but only with in the treasury department handles outgoing and internal flow between organizations. The legislature it two houses, further dividing.
2. The States in the US have more individual governing power when compared to provinces of other nations. This is why they are called states. The states are divided similarly from within like the federal government; with divided legislatures and executives. They also have the power to handle most law enforcement, property taxes, abortion laws, marriage laws, most civil law, gambling, prostitution, commerce, etc. Federal regulation is actually pretty rare compared to other countries national governments.
3. The constitution prevents most of this from changing, and it is very hard to change it. Article V of the the constitution is:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
So 2/3 of congress or State Legislatures have to agree to call a convention to discuss it and 3/4 of States independent legislatures or state conventions (this would mean revolution) have to ratify it... notice this excludes the executive branch.
I find these comparisons to Hitler unlikely, because I doubt Clinton, Obama, or McCain will be able to eliminate the other branches power, kill Millions in death factories, or eliminate the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the constitution that guarantee state and personal rights)... It would be very hard for them to do it if they wanted because each state basically has it's own Military forces (the National Guard and armed police) and all the armed citizens walking around here.
