There is a fine book titled After America. In that book the author has a quote from an American working in Dubai. He says Americans are silly to think that the “good life” can only be led in a democracy. The American goes on to say that he knows he lives in a benign dictatorship where communications are tapped and one is guilty ’til proven innocent. But, as he says, crime is low, his kids can walk to school, the family can worship at a Christian church, and he can quietly party when he pleases without fear of retribution.

I’m convinced that this is the type of government America is building now with the permission of its people. It is exactly of the type described in the novel WE, which was Orwell’s inspiration for 1984.