Have you ever had nightmares of the coming fascism?

I had one. It was freaking scary.

All I remember about the nightmare was that I was in hiding somewhere. I was hiding in some kind of abandoned vehicle from the fascist soldiers. And they almost caught me.




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being as open about it as hitler was in the late 30's to mid 40's.

about a week or so ago for the first time. I just remember when I woke up a feeling that I had a dream like a movie. The government was against the people and it was a revolution. I remember a lot of scenes like in The Pianist- war torn streets hiding running. It's so crazy that we have to fear this in America.

The Pianist when you have lived through it.

1993 film with Cubs Gooding jr. before he sold out, Moira Kelly and John Savage as a bu$h-like fundie , fascist president who spreads fear, quotes scripture and encourages/funds citizen snitch groups. There's also a virus that is hitting the lower classes and those afflicted by it are roundes up, interned and executed.

This may not be too far from reality.

of real evil (from past experience with a diabolical sociopath stalking me). There are nasty politics and then there are pure evil politics. Bush & Co. are looking more and more like the latter - which Hitler obviously was. And they use the tools of a persecratory sociopath every day. Maddening.

the other employees were dressed as SS officers. They showed me to my desk which was really tiny and next to the xerox machine (like in a Mike Judge cartoon).

I looked at the tiny desk and all and blurted out, "Oy vey"

When I looked around at the nazis they were doing that one eyebrow raised thing. It was so bizarre that I woke up and then laughed.

I had this persistent cough that wouldn't let me sleep properly. In my sleep-addled mind, the cough became a metaphor for government takeover of the formerly free press, and we were losing. Mrs. Squeech said I was yelling in my sleep: "No, don't do that!"

The one that most recently comes to mind involved John AssKKKroft throwing boiling coffee on an Arab-American prisoner. Given what we know, his nightmare probably wasn't far off the mark.

As for me, my most recent one was a Handmaids Tale sort of story where we were herded into camps in the Wal-Mart parking lot, and given cardboard boxes without rooves to live in.

There was a large television in my living room. I couldn't turn the TV off by government decree and I couldn't turn the sound down very much, and it showed a constant parade of religious programming.

...involve people not recognizing it and not lifting a finger to stop it. I'm not even sure that I'm dreaming.

But you know what the sheeple say, "It can't happen here."

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am living one every day that * & Co. is still in office. I stay up late each night, a lot on DU so I fall into a deep sleep right away and hopefully don't dream.

and having watched all the tv shows about wwII, at bedtime i used to jump in bed and pull the covers tightly over me so the nazis couldn't get me.

I have had numerous nightmares and waking bad thoughts about being picked up and locked up without trial.

As an Arab American who has donated money in the past to peacefull organizations of an Islamic bent, it wouldn't take much for the government to say 'He has terrorist ties, pick him up'. They'd be totally off base of course, but they still could. Just come, arrest me, throw me in a van, ship me off to Guantanamo or wherever...not even inform my wife where I am, she worries sick about my dissapearance. Not allowed a trial or an attourney.

Those are fun thoughts and dreams.

As you probably know, I'm British and live in London. London, being a global financial centre and the European new-media hub, has a lot of Americans in it. I have several American friends, and consider myself not only an Americophile, but also an Atlanticist.

My dream, which I have had twice, revolves around the UK apparently in recovery from some sort of general crisis that has also affected contineantal Europe. We have had it easy compared to some is the general impression. But people talk about the USA in the past tense. People go to Canada lots to help, but the US is too dangerous beyond a few areas "coalition" (I think Euro, Canadian, Indian and Japanese) taskforces have established in the Dakotas and Colorado, and New York.

It's extraordinarily vivid and very frightening. No dream has scared me so much since I was a kid and had nightmares about nuclear war.

Thanks so much for sharing.

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I'm kidding you. Sort of.

I thought we were meant to be sharing.