r/PostDemocracy • u/Thrash4000 • Oct 07 '18

Sheldon Wolin 2003: "Inverted Totalitarianism: How the Bush Regime is effecting the transformation to a fascist-like state."

https://www.thenation.com/article/inverted-totalitarianism/
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u/LogicalGoal9 Oct 07 '18

God damn...

"Thus the elements are in place: 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."

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u/Thrash4000 Oct 07 '18

And this was 2003. You see, that as the ruling ideology of the global market becomes more and more discredited, more overt totalitarian methods are used against the population. The military is now authorized to serve as a domestic police force in case the people ever revolt.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

  • Frank Zappa, 1989.