Yeah but while 9/11 caused Americans to be more receptive to policies that were authoritarian it in no way caused Americans to question democracy in favor of authoritarianism. Democracy isn't just a political belief in America, it is a mindless fetish. It being a fetish allows for subverting democracy since Americans don't really understand what they're fetishizing but they do still fetishize it to an extent that makes overt authoritarianism a hard sell. Authoritarianism can't be directly elected or argued for, it needs to be sneakily slided in, and that's where I'm wondering if there's a glass ceiling for fascism that can't be overcome without a massive mitigating factor.
You know, like global warming. So yeah... ugh.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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