we're well on our way to what may become the most dystopian dictatorship under trump-musk and the rest of the bigoted bullies who support and provide the 'muscle', the violence, intimidation, the 'authority' that 'legitimizes' his rule... in world history, which is saying a lot, to say the least, considering the sordid record of dystopian dictatorships this world has known. they are very boldly and effectively usurping such power with very little resistance from the other branches of government or from civil society. this isn't coming out of the blue; it's been developing for decades, the groundwork, the empowerment of authoritarian forces and the disempowerment of the rest of us, probably ever since the backlash to the 60s took hold going back to that time of COINTELPRO and the initial ramping up of the war on drugs under richard 'law and order' nixon and his conservative republican party, soon to fall under the spell of christian conservatives, at the same time the democrats were also becoming more conservative and abandoning much of it's progressive agenda. good article detailing some of this slide into this abyss, i came across thanks to a commenter on the website 'common dreams' , who frequently recommends reading articles from the world socialist web site (wsws.org):
another great article from the same author detailing the horrors of the atomic bombing of japanese cities at the end of ww2, why it wasn't necessary, and how the american establishment has been deceiving the american sheeple about it ever since:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/05/27/hiro-m27.html
excerpt from this article:
"There is a certain naïveté on the part of the American people with regard to the utter ruthlessness of the American ruling class, particularly in relation to the Second World War. That war has long been presented by the American media and political establishment as a great war for democracy, against fascism and tyranny. In fact, the principal reason that the United States entered the war—and the underlying motivation behind all its actions in prosecuting the war—was to establish itself as the dominant and unchallenged world power. In pursuit of this aim the lives of hundreds of thousands of Japanese were of little consequence."
