Socialism Is Here. Communist America Could Follow.
The Fukushima Effect in American Politics
From the essay
The Fukushima nuclear disaster offers a warning far beyond nuclear power. The plant had protections against a major earthquake. It also had protections against a tsunami. But when the earthquake triggered the tsunami, the two dangers became one cascading event. I see a similar danger developing in American politics. A socialist movement capable of turning economic dissatisfaction into a demand for centralized political control and radical anti-Western religious ideology can amplify one another. Like Fukushima, the greatest danger may lie in the combination, and in our failure to imagine what that combination could do.