WILL THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE USA GIVE RISE TO FASCISM?

Excellent article by Australian Economist Warwick Powell.... 

America is disintegrating: this is the BEST news then world can have, BUT it will lash out as it descends into disorder and perhaps fascism....
'Today, across the United States, signs of deep social fracture are surfacing in data once read as marginal indicators. Sales of bulletproof glass, home security systems, and CCTV installations are surging. The bulletproof glass market alone is growing at nearly 10% per annum, projected to exceed US$4.28 billion by 2030. In parallel, U.S. spending on residential and commercial alarm systems has climbed past US$70 billion annually. These are sociological metrics of fear; they are barometers of a population fortifying itself against a sense of internal collapse.......By amplifying fear and exaggerating disorder, political actors justify the expansion of coercive authority - more policing, surveillance and the normalisation of emergency powers. Fascism, historically, did not arise from chaos; it arose from the promise to control chaos......This is fascism not yet in the historical sense of totalitarian uniformity, but in its functional structure it is already well-formed. It is bearing all the hallmarks of a metamorphosis from kleptocracy to full-blown fascism. We see a fragmented society governed by fear. As fear is fanned and ultimately takes hold, a charismatic leader weaponises it into claims of belonging; a politics of nostalgia galvanises those who long for a better, safer time.......As its internal cohesion unravels, the U.S. displaces domestic tension outward. Each episode of internal discord has historically produced a foreign enemy to unify the home front: the “war on terror,” the “war on drugs,” and now the “new cold war” with China. This is the classic imperial reflex. It is a psychological projection of internal disorder onto external adversaries......The danger, then, is not that America will collapse quietly, but that it will implode loudly - first as it retreats to the comforts of simulacra, and then by externalising its own dysfunction through militarisation, proxy conflict and ideological contagion. America’s millenarian reflex is never far away. If Wang saw a nation “against itself,” the world must now contend with the next phase; an America against the world, a superpower at war with its own reflection.

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