I liked the movie but didn’t really believe in the premise back then because of MAD and nukes. I see a scenario similar to the plot of V for Vendetta as a more plausible reality using the war on Terror and War on Drugs type things to move towards fascism, but I’d replace the persecuted classes in V with Libertarians and Christians. I could see us living in a V for Vendetta type Facist Autocracy within 10 years.
From this post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846894/posts
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“But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.”
— James Madison (Federalist No. 46, 29 January 1788)
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And one of the replies included this:
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume I, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum,of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1838), p. 109.