The difference between Gilead and what they’re trying to do in America is that at least in Gilead they admitted something drastic had changed.

The insidious thing we’re facing is an America wrapped in its usual facade but run through with violence and closed measures of control.
We’re being turned very quickly into a managed democracy where many rights still exist but are either controlled by manipulation or else people will be too afraid or apathetic to exercise them. And any effort to disagree will be net by swift violence.
The fascistic project we’re watching unfold relies on the specter of violence hanging over every word and action while blatant criminality and never ending, blatant lies work to create an apathy and sense of powerlessness that makes us victimized accomplices.
Gilead functioned on an ideology derived from fundamentalism. We’re being swallowed by a fascistic movement formed by corrupt hypercapitalists, fundamentalists, white supremacists, and their shared members. It relies on Americans believing in an intact mythological *America*
For America to be captured by these people it still has to look and feel, at least nominally, like an America of the past, an America where our mythology wasn’t wearing thin and our crimes exposed. Any attempt to deny that facade or confront it will be met with violence.
Remember. Fascism finds purchase in declining countries powered by nationalist and religious myths. It scapegoats the decline on vulnerable populations and supposed traitors. That’s what this is. A declining America raging and gnashing its teeth.
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