By this we mean, that the US is an ingeniously hermetically sealed vessel of elite control that expertly gives the appearance of freedom, equality, and justice.
To be sure though, there is indeed a certain level of all three of those highly desirable social and political goods in the society; far more than in classical fascism. However, the steerage of the system is in the hands of hidden actors who are the de facto elites but have no need or desire to be identified as such, since they too look primarily to enjoy the fruits of a dynamically regulated civil society which nevertheless, and crucially, does not, in the slightest, threaten their actual dominance and elite status since it is unseen and thus publicly unquantifiable.
Thus our fascism tends to lurk in the shadows; in the unseen spaces where our well trained/conditioned eyes cannot see the markings of hidden power, privilege, and control. The trappings of democracy hang loosely over hardened structures of domination that we can but dimly see.
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