Politics and fascism

Why Do So Many Americans Want To Live in a Dictatorship?

The notion of a free America is dying, but as long as we can watch Netflix on our phones we won’t care

There is a scene in the slightly watchable FX TV series Y: The Last Man, where Yorick (the titular last man) and his protector, Agent 355, are wading through a noisy outdoor market.

Agent 355 asks a vendor why there is a substantial police presence. The vendor explains that the market had been chaotic and unruly before the police presence. The tightened security, says the vendor, is highly welcome.

A few minutes later the vendor is shot dead by those same security people.

It’s easy to overlook an allegorical scene like that from an otherwise average streaming telecast. But that scene speaks to the ironic truth about dictatorships and the extreme policing Americans have grown accustomed to:

So-called security doesn’t only come with the price of curtailed freedoms.

Enhanced “security” is actually inherently less safe for the society it claims to protect. It is, in fact, an extreme danger to all of us.