by Gary Alan Scott, 4/12/06
Fascism in America
won’t come with jackboots, book burnings, mass rallies, and fevered
harangues, nor will it come with black helicopters or tanks on the
street. It won’t come like a storm(but as a break in the weather, that
sudden change of season you might feel when the wind shifts on an
October evening: Everything is the same, but everything has changed.
Something has gone, departed from the world, and a new reality will
have taken its place. All the old forms will still be there:
legislatures, elections, campaigns(plenty of bread and circuses. But
‘consent of the governed’ will no longer apply; actual control of the
state will have passed to a small and privileged group who rule for the
benefit of their wealthy peers and corporate patrons. [read more]