Fascist America, in ten easy steps

I have often thought much the same thoughts as Naomi Wolf has expressed in this article. I may not agree with everything she writes on every subject - she is known for being anti-globalization but I happen to think she's dead on with this one.

Essentially, 9-11 was an incredibly successful attack which has managed to turn the US away from freedom towards a totalitarian state.

However, I have much greater hope for the US than I do for, say, Fiji. I think the civil society in the US to eventually swing the pendulum back. We've started to see signs of that with the last midterm elections and the subsequent robust fight from the Congress and Senate over Iraq.

The presidential election next year will be very interesting and a true test of US democracy. Either a Democrat will win (and the fight between a black man and and a white woman will also be interesting or, I predict, the Republican candidate will be far more centrist than Bush (although that's not exactly hard).

We'll see.