there were maps of the camps, schedules for the trains, and equally vacuous advice for how to avoid incarceration -- and it went on for years. And those were some of the milder popular delusions. BushCo was going to cancel elections and declare itself dictator forever, the military was going to take over police functions and begin massive internal deportations, the government had created new weapons capable of generating massive geological upheavals -- BushCo was responsible for the Christmas tsunami!
And this isn't a recent phenomena, nor is it fueled exclusively by the internet. When I was a teenager, in the late '60s, similar rumors of government run concentration camps dotted about the countryside were all the rage, and there were numberless people convinced all the war protestors, the hippies and the yippies and who all knew all, but everyone was going to be rounded up ("Any day now!"
and carted off to lifelong incarceration.
It seems not so much the delusions of any particular group, but the burgeoning fears of untold numbers of Americans who seemingly find the whole concept of democracy, self-rule, and, indeed, freedom itself, a little too difficult to handle or even conceive.
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