Drive to maintain unity of “Free World” empire, contain or absorb communist or socialist regimes, and perhaps retreat to “Fortress America”
A more integrated Big-Business-Government power structure, backed up by remolded militarism, new technocratic ideologies, and more advanced arts of ruling and fooling the public
A more unbalanced economy, rooted in extended stagflation, manipulated shortages, more junk, and environmental degradation
Subtle subversion, through manipulative use and control of democratic machinery, parties, and human rights
Informationial offensives, backed up by high-technology monitoring, to manage minds of elites and immobilize masses
Rationed rewards of power and money for elites, extended professionalism, accelerated consumerism for some, and social services conditional on recipients' good behavior
Direct terror applied through low-level violence and professionalized, low-cost escalation, with indirect terror through ethnic conflicts, multiple scapegoats, and organized disorder
More varied and extensive anxiety relief through not only traditional escape mechanisms but also through sex, drugs, madness, and cults
Internal viability grounded on system-strengthening reforms, multilevel co-optation, creative counterresistance and innovative apathetics
Bertram Gross’ warning was not heeded strongly enough and I’m not sure the Fascism that has arisen is all that “friendly.”