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Originally Posted by roachboy
the right seems to imagine the future as a kind of neo-feudalism within which a corporate aristocracy lives in gated communities guarded by private militias and the state is reduced to a purely repressive function.
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I don't think that many are actually projecting the situation in this way. To the extent that this is a logical end of their ideology, I see it more as the function of a series of short-sighted political decisions geared towards narrow personal advantage. You imply that this kind of corruption emerges from some kind of despair about the future of the country and its economy; I don't see why simple greed or ambition are not sufficient explanations.
Perhaps I'm simply not understanding this part of your argument. Why is the attempt of a group or class of people to protect their interests necessarily linked to problems with (or a projected deterioration of) American capitalism? On the contrary, it seems to me a natural outcome of that system as it exists today.