trump is a product of the american surveillance system. we built a fascist system of total control, trusting that only honest angelic freedom-loving people would control it, and within two decades a fascist rose to power. a generation of politically-empowered people built a fascist system in the absence of fascists, and voila! like magic, fascists! we didn't have to go into permanent crackdown. we didn't have to slide right so hard. it wasn't even a democratic shift. my generation, which got shoved out of power for failure to conform, actually spent the whole time sliding left.
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