I agree with most of this, though I do think the U.S. will still become a full-blown autocracy soon, since there’s hardly any resistance.
For the techno-fascists, the need to transform larger cooperatives - such as the EU - into smaller, less influential entities exists only where they expect resistance; that is precisely what they do to weaken resistance by splitting more powerful large units into smaller, less influential parts.
This does not seem necessary for the US, since the country has effectively been a de facto oligarchy for decades. However, I now think that the oligarchs have realized they no longer need to pretend that the US is a democracy. After all, it is much easier for the actual rulers if they can simply make their opponents disappear, as their counterparts in Russia do.
I agree with most of this, though I do think the U.S. will still become a full-blown autocracy soon, since there’s hardly any resistance.
For the techno-fascists, the need to transform larger cooperatives - such as the EU - into smaller, less influential entities exists only where they expect resistance; that is precisely what they do to weaken resistance by splitting more powerful large units into smaller, less influential parts.
This does not seem necessary for the US, since the country has effectively been a de facto oligarchy for decades. However, I now think that the oligarchs have realized they no longer need to pretend that the US is a democracy. After all, it is much easier for the actual rulers if they can simply make their opponents disappear, as their counterparts in Russia do.