The United States operates under inverted totalitarianism—a system with the facade of the late Roman Republic but internally the citizen has been utterly disempowered through a court system that has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate state, overturning constitutional rights by judicial fiat.

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Chris Hedges

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we live in a system Sheldon Wolin called inverted totalitarianism where you have the facade like the late Roman Republic but internally the citizen has been utterly disempowered

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Chris Hedges on his latest book, America: The Farewell TourGBH Forum Network
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:32:04 AM

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