The elements are in place [for a quasi-fascist takeover]: a weak
legislative body, a legal system that is both compliant and repressive, a
party system in which one party, whether in opposition or in the
majority, is bent upon reconstituting the existing system so as to
permanently favor a ruling class of the wealthy, the well-connected and
the corporate, while leaving the poorer citizens with a sense of
helplessness and political despair, and, at the same time, keeping the
middle classes dangling between fear of unemployment and expectations of
fantastic rewards once the new economy recovers. That scheme is abetted
by a sycophantic and increasingly concentrated media; by the
integration of universities with their corporate benefactors; by a
propaganda machine institutionalized in well-funded think tanks and
conservative foundations; by the increasingly closer cooperation between
local police and national law enforcement agencies aimed at identifying
terrorists, suspicious aliens and domestic dissidents.
--Sheldon Wolin, May 2003
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we should be wary that a faux “movement” may be manufactured on the backs of real movements that have sought to upend that political and ...
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Americans “must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”...
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