trying to wrap my head around why everything in the US is turned into a political battle--from the most trivial culture war stuff to major national crises such as the response to COVID-19. Is it a Gramscian thing where a ruling class in crisis is unable to maintain ideological hegemony?
I was trying to think of a super technical term but I don't see any reason why we shouldn't call it totalitarianism. We have due process and elections but isn't the key feature TOTILIZATION?
Mussolini: "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." And we must vet literally all things for their- not exactly on nationalistic terms- but maybe more like their civic wholesomeness?
Is it just plain totalitarianism except with civics instead of ultra nationalism?
feels really totalitarian to me.