Comment on Hedge fund billionaire says US may face ‘worse than a recession’ from Trump tariffs
huppakee@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Most people consider a fascist takeover causing a collapse of democratic institutions worse than a recession, is this really news?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Economic downturns tend to cause social unrest which legitimize expansion of the security state.
In this case, it appears that a fascist dictatorship is deliberately inducing the downtown to justify expansion of the DHS.
Naomi Klein laid out how this has happened in the past (particularly in the former Soviet states after the break up of the USSR) in her book Shock Doctrine. The pattern has also been laid out as a counter-insurgency strategy in Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method.
But the nut of it is that you tend to get both.
huppakee@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thanks for the tip. Don’t want to argue but in the case I could have either I’d definitely pick the recession.