An American Refrain, or Thank You Libba Bray!

I've been watching the US news in bafflement. What has happened to the country I first came to in 1979? This insightful post by the enormously talented Libba Bray says it all: An American Refrain. The problem is of course that when America teeters on the brink of Fascism, it is in danger of dragging the rest of the world down with it.