zara06’s Reviews > Political Fictions > Status Update

“…we had emerged a people again so yearning to accept the government version, or again so angry, as to buy into a revision of history in which those Americans who differed—those Americans who for reasons of their ‘political orientation’ would ‘fabricate’ reports of a massacre carried out by a unit noted for its ‘humane treatment of the people’—were again our true, and only truly sinister, enemy”

“…that half the nation's citizens had only a vassal relationship to the government under which they lived, that the democracy we spoke of spreading throughout the world was now in our own country only an ideality, had come to be seen, against the higher priority of keeping the process in the hands of those who already held it, as facts without application”