More comments overheard at the Bar.
Let’s be clear: American fascism, if it comes, is not likely to come on the form of a charismatic leader pulling the political wool over the eyes of right-thinking Americans – for that, the common sense of most American citizens will do just fine in beating it back.
But it is likely to come on the form of denigrated civil liberties in the face of governmental and corporate absolutism, coupled with expanded militarism, a structured class system, and an alienated, psychologically disenfranchised citizenry, among other characteristics.
The day is hardly likely to come, then, when American jackboots parade down Main Street, but certainly could arrive when all government policy is centered on “national security” issues as defined by a narrow set of corporate self-interests and ideological perceptions about foreign policy, complete without any true recourse by the citizenry.
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