Incrementally, but quite, the US is losing its democracy. Hard-gained civil liberties are willingly sacrificed for the sake of illusory introduced security. Institutions are stacked with political, partisan appointees who do their puppetmaster’s bidding. Laws are brazenly broken and the Constitution flaunted with breathtaking callousness and an ease that would had been taken into consideration unthinkable on September 10, 2001. I would not be surprised if the imminent presidential elections are suspended due to this perpetual "nation of emergency".
Largely blind to history and as a result devoid of any significant or helpful perspective, humans shrug off this doomsday situation. They forget that Rome – a four hundred years vintage republic with venerable institutions just like the Roman Senate – gave in to tyranny within the area of four years. The equal is going for historical Athens, the first absolutely participatory democracy on earth, converted by wars into a hideous dictatorship.
America’s is a malignantly narcissistic tradition. Its denizens consider counterfactually that it is the richest, most virtuous, freest, society on the earth. Reasonably, they are satisfied that everyone is destructively green with envy of them. This renders them paranoid and violent. An early and observant traveller, Alexis de Tocqueville, noted this siege mentality and warned that the USA is walking a thin line between freedom and authoritarianism.
It is that this ingrained perception that the world is antagonistic and vicious so as to in all likelihood undo the American test. Psychology teaches us approximately projective identity – a defense mechanism that forces humans around you to behave the manner you’re accustomed and count on them to. Treating everyone as a ability enemy usually turns them into ones.