An America dying in dictatorship is fraught with horror, denial, angst.
Countless Americans now live in terror of the totalitarian state coming at us full bore.
As a people, we’ve flirted with homegrown fascism in our literature, arts and imagination. But we’ve only briefly confronted it in real time.
Obviously, it sucks.
But on a karmic level, based on what we have done to other peoples and nations, don’t we deserve it?
And won’t this Trumpian nightmare force us to confront the faults that have powered his rise?
America’s core freedoms have been a long term assumption.
Based on gender, sexual orientation, class, race, involuntary servitude, religion, national origin, etc, for millions that freedom has been a cruel illusion.
But in the larger flow of human history, we inherited from Indigenous America a unique sense of liberty. Few North American tribes were authoritarian in nature.
