We are in a new, if entirely predictable, danger zone. The State of Illinois and City of Chicago are now ceasing business with Bank of America because BofA declined to extend credit to Republic Windows and Doors, a plant where workers are now engaged in a sit-in.
The take-over of much of the U.S. financial industry — with health care and maybe energy next — could lead to endless mischief of this sort and much worse.
A friend writes to say: “fascism has come to America.” Alarmist, or prophetic?
