The author compares the hopelessness of the American rural hinterlands & the rust belt, where suicide & drug abuse are rising to the AIDS epidemic and wonders why the gay community was able to turn the corner while the others cannot. The answer is simple; viral infections are not nearly so dangerous nor as monstrous of a killer as the state. Opposing it is much, much harder.

That said, he at least gets why we're gonna get fascism:

Lets be honest- Clinton doesn’t give a shit about me. When Clinton talks about people hurt by the economy, she means you: elite-educated white-collar people with obvious career tracks who are having trouble with their bills and their 401k plans. That’s who boomed under the last president Clinton, especially the 401ks. Me, or the three guys fighting two nights ago over the Township mowing contract, we’re nothing. Clinton doesn’t have an economic plan for us. Nobody has an economic plan for us. There is no economic plan for us, ever. We keep driving trucks around and keep the margins above gas money and maybe take an odd job here or there, but essentially, we’re history and nobody seems to mind saying so.

And let me be honest again- Trump doesn’t have an economic plan for me either. What Trump’s boys have for me is a noose- but that’s the choice I’m facing, a lifetime of grueling poverty, or apocalypse. Yeah I know, not fun and games- the shouts, the smashing glass, the headlights on the lawn, but what am I supposed to do, raise my kid to stay one step ahead of the inspectors and don’t, for the love of god, don’t ever miss a payment on your speeding ticket? A noose is something I know how to fight.

Fuck it. Give me the fascists, I’ll know where I stand…

Things turned out exactly as he said, and now he can probably pick it up for a song.

Guess that's what happens when you become buddies with Bill.

It's a political slush fund like most high-profile charities.

The inverse blessings of the state.

lol. Way to go Mark Dice.

The life-saving effects of the Free Market. This would never be allowed in our authoritarian present.

On the bogus "war on cops".

Without Government in the way, great things happen.

Gotta eliminate that stuff, it's bad for ya. Suppression ain't gonna help long-term.

Pretty good gig for writers, actually.

Sounds like he knew how things got done in NYC back in those days. It may have actually been cheaper to get trump tower constructed that way than to suffer delays and union BS.

Lol, each of their TBTFers are 4x the size of their entire economy. When they go wipeout, somebody's gonna lose their shit big time.

Gee maybe because the revolution was fought by Al-Qaeda in the first place? What a bunch of morons.

During Chernobyl. Figured nobody would notice.

Now they have some 'textalyzer' gimcrack in NYC, all the better to rob you with, I'd presume.

Yeah, sure, under seige by the state due to them sending in the goonforce instead of actually solving the problem by legalizing drugs.

Interesting story if true. I'd be curious as to the source of this, as I've seen stories like this for over 10 years, and almost every year.

Always good to see stories of power hungry statists bugging their eyes out so much that they let the truth slip.

They are just now starting to see that?

BONUS: FrontLine's spin on it.

Sounds like he wants a massive civil disobedience campaign as the strategem for winning.

Sounds about right.

As usual, this gang recognizes no limits.

And rightly so, as government rarely considers a power grab and then fails to implement it.