Well, at least our fascists are shitty fascists.
Jan 14 2017
And yet, as much as so many of us love our fascism, we've never produced strongmen-types of the European variety, modeling avant-garde military fashion and leather accoutrements and doofusy arm gestures and stark, jagged flag designs. We have carnival barkers instead, or greedy inventors who electrocute elephants, or oil men with boater hats giving away dimes, or minor actors unable to tell their former roles in Westerns from reality, or cigar-chomping populists who differ from gangsters only in where their offices are located and the opiates they push.
In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen considers the sad case of the American fascist, encouraged by our appetite for repression but hampered by public opinion, spending the waning days of capitalism watching the pendulum swing towards disaster, or sustainable egalitarianism, or momentous conflict - all equal possibilities.
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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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