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LostYonder wrote

I can see that. However, what those 'self-preserving' behaviors do is in fact reproduce the status-quo over and over again, with very little actual change in policy orientations. As well, they manufacture consent in very nefarious ways that essentially provide a mechanism for the state to operate as a fascist state behind a well textured facade of democracy.

The US doesn't require a dictator, we have the mechanisms for pacifying the populace, a highly armed and effective police/security apparatus, and a state that is designed to seek out and fulfill the needs of an elite few, even when they may have conflicting interests. In fact, the adaptability of the state to fulfill different and competing needs of the elite establishment is one of its creative hallmarks. But I don't think that flexibility makes it any less fascist.

What I would suggest is that we have a non-dictatorial fascist state...

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