The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/19/the-mad-violence-of-casino-capitalism/
Date Written:  2016-02-19
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18767

American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has become imaginable in that it has become possible not only to foresee the death of the essential principles of constitutional democracy, but also the birth of what Hannah Arendt once called the horror of dark times.