By Objective Measure, America Is Now a Fascist State

However hard it is to believe, America is a now fascist, authoritarian state, and I have simple, incontrovertible proof that establishes this low-water mark objectively: foreigners — particularly non-white-skinned ones, and even Americans who are non-white, are afraid to visit or travel in America for fear of being abducted and held without counsel or due process, by masked representatives of the regime.

Foreigners in many advanced countries, whether western hemisphere or not, rightly regard us as a lawless state, where due process is no longer a certainty. And you can add to that the fact that even American citizens in (!) America — when they are Hispanic — are afraid to move in public, again for fear of abduction and possible deportation — totally without justification or propriety — by masked operatives of those in power.

That’s it. We can talk about other metrics (suppression of free speech), or we could talk about the difference between perception and reality… but by true and authentic tests of behavior, we are not free anymore. This is an ultimate example of perception being reality. Fascism might have indicators or ‘hallmarks,’ but there is no declaration made or certifying organization; one knows fascism when one feels it. And yes, there is a checklist.

Witness the following: people hesitate to protest because of retribution; people hesitate to write because of retribution; journalists and humorists are blackmailed out of their jobs; universities are blackmailed out of whatever ethics they presumed to espouse; books are banned; concentration camps are created; institutions are undermined; revisionist history is promulgated. The list goes on. It was in fact the chasing out of TV celebrity Steven Colbert, that signaled to me the completion of our transformation. America operates as a fascist state.

We need explanations that do not merely blame the problem on demons, or demonize all of those who somehow made this happen. We must do better. Fifty percent of voters asked for this, whether they want to admit it or not. And no, I don’t accept that any of them were fooled.

Instead, my focus is, as has been my observation for many years now, that our founding fathers were geniuses, but their streak has run out. We need term limits in Congress and the Supreme Court. Like all our problems, technology is at the core. Technology has made it such that the incumbents are too entrenched to remove, but let’s save that explanation for elsewhere.