#storynotes The short story The Dead Zone has taken a rather unexpected turn. I got to thinking about what a nation in a perpetual state of war would be like. Not like the US today where we give lipservice to the war but like the US in WW2 where everyone was committed to the war effort. You know a nation obsessed with the war, viewing and believing the propaganda, fearing invasions any day etc etc... I imagine that after a few years of that the nation would be a little squirrely in the head, paranoid, fearful,... I wonder how jingoistic it would be after a while.

THe working theory is that the United States would slowly evolve (after the Nazi bombardment of the east coast) into the United State, a monolithic state at the mercy of the military complex...

But how do I keep the United State from being fascistic???