Watching America turn itself into a tyranny, in realtime

[hawkwing_lb]

My country is small and globally insignificant. Our news reports largely concern themselves with parochial things: even those provided by our nearest neighbour rarely do more than cover a handful of high-noise-content international news.

This isn't high-noise news. It will hardly been noticed, unless people start making noise - a lot of noise.

Most of us don't know it, but we are presently watching a nation teeter on the brink of tyranny.

The process by which a society moves towards fascism is an incremental one, and hard to see unless one steps back and really looks. Because what seemed outrageous last year is accepted as the norm this one: what would once have been unthinkable becomes barely noticed.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-we-there-yet.html

And by the time you realise the process is underway, it seems too late, too hard to stop.

I'm not embarrassed to say I'm afraid for the United States.

And of it.

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

You're not alone. I teeter between Canadian citizenship (closer, geographically speaking) and Irish citizenship (last generation that qualifies, at least as I learned of it about 20 years ago). The only good thing is, the media have become more bold about publishing such news, and are not so infatuated with the administration (except of course for Faux News).

The Republicans seem not to realize that there's supposed to be tension between Congress, President and the Supreme Court -- that's the system of checks and balances. When all agree, then the citizenry is in danger.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

You know, far be it for me to join the tinfoil hat brigade, but... If you can start applying for dual citizenship, I'd do it. Just in case.

Because I'm starting to think these Republicans you speak of - hell, maybe even some of your Democrats - don't really care for checks and balances. Or the rule of law.

In the only country that's ever used nuclear weapons in anger, that seriously makes me worried.

And maybe that's overreaction. But I'm watching similar things happen - to some degree, at least, though it's far less egregious - in France, in the UK, even here. Concentration of power in the hands of the elite few does not appear, historically, to have favourable consequences for those not part of the elite few.