From LA Progressive: Oppressive Practices and Policies: Is a Violent, Dystopian Future Really What You Want?
If you truly approve of these oppressive practices and policies, then maybe you deserve to live with them and the violent rightwing dystopia they will bring.
By LAWRENCE WITTNER
Recently, many opinion polls indicate that Donald Trump, a convicted criminal, pathological liar, and the latest in a long string of rightwing demagogues, is likelier than not to be elected President of the United States.
I was born and raised during World War II, a time when fascist armies seemed on the verge of conquering the world, and perhaps this accounts for my feeling of alarm at the current revival of rightwing extremism in the United States and elsewhere. This alarm seems justified today not only because of the hate-filled rhetoric and program of the latest crop of would-be führers, but because of their popularity. Indeed, their popular appeal is deeply disturbing and contrary to what many of us expected in the aftermath of the crushing defeat and discrediting of fascism in 1945.