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The Future of Us
The idea that America is turning fascist has been popular on the Left for as long as most can remember: in the 1960s, when antiwar radicals raged against the Machine, this kind of exaggeration dominated campus political discourse and even made its way into the mainstream. Such rhetoric, too overheated for American tastes, was quite obviously an exaggeration: America in the 1960s was no more "fascistic" than miniskirts and Hula Hoops. Furthermore, we weren't even close to fascism, as the downfall of Richard M. Nixon made all too clear to whatever developing authoritarians were nurtured at the breast of the GOP.
Back in those peaceful days, America was, in effect, practically immune from the fascist virus that had wreaked such havoc in Europe and Asia in previous decades: there was a kind of innocence, back then, that acted as a vaccine against this dreaded affliction. Fascism, the demonic offspring of war, was practically a stranger to American soil. After all, it had been a century since America had been a battleground, and the sense of invulnerability flooded our politics and culture. Nothing could hurt us: we were forever young. But as we moved into the new millennium, Americans acquired a sense of their own mortality: an acute awareness that we could be hurt, and badly. That is the legacy of 9/11.
Blessed with a double protection against foreign invasion the Atlantic and Pacific oceans America hasn't experienced the effects of large-scale military conflict on its soil since the Civil War. On that occasion, you'll remember, Lincoln, the "Great Emancipator," nearly emancipated the U.S. government from the chains of the Constitution by shutting down newspapers, jailing his political opponents, and cutting a drape of destruction through the South, which was occupied and treated like a conquered province years after Lee surrendered. He was the closest to a dictator that any American president has come but...
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