A tough situation for the People to fight out of. There are plenty of forms of government which are not fascist, it doesn't mean that it has to be some completely individualistic thing. Though all government tends towards tyranny given time, so regardless you have to watch out. There isn't really differing sides in the main party any more, they both functionally behave similarly. There has been a closure of political competition wherein the Republocrats solidate their control of the government through rules and regulations which prevent actual challenges. Even the media itself is captured and reports on sensationalism with severe partisan bias. So when people are saying "we're gonna be socialist" this or that, it's not quite correct because what both parties engage in is fascism, not socialism. It's all built upon the power and authority of the State over the People. Furthermore, both sides have championed vast expansion of government and aggressive, interventionist, forever war. Additionally both sides support the corporate capitalist model we have going now over free market capitalism which allows competition. It's a complete fusing of State and Industry such that government has complete dominion over Industry.
If you look around at the system for what it is, it is clear that what is being followed now is a fascist playbook. Modern day "conservatism", the folk who champion all this movement of government, is nothing more than thinly veiled fascism as I have said and subsequently explained and expanded.
But if both sides are fascist that leaves us with the job to find the proper party which can take over and reverse the damage which has been done over the decades by the Republocrats. It's not an all or nothing sort of thing, not yet anyway.