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Maybe it’s time to give the fascists another chance.

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Let me put it this way: as a free people living in the freest nation on Earth, albeit with the largest incarcerated population (though admittedly that’s not really a gauge of anything besides how many people we have locked up), don’t we owe it to ourselves and our posterity to take something like control over our inevitable future? What good is all this freedom if we can’t use it to freely choose inevitable tyranny?

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen spends part of his time in between fascist periods thinking about fascists and fascism, and what non-fascists have done (and haven't done) in the last 70 years, and the tidy solutions of a bloodthirsty, maniacal elite, and a choice we can't even choose to make.

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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