He said what?

Normally, I dismiss people who think that America could be sleep-walking towards fascism as conspiracy theorists and cranks. Today, I think I wish we knew more about the story of the famed mathematician, Kurt Goedel, who thought it possible to sneak a dictatorship past the US Constitution.

Why? Firstly, fascism sensu stricto entails an excessively cosy relationship between big business and big government; in fact, this is almost the definition of fascism. And secondly, on The World at One, I just heard a newsworthy American—dunno who, I missed the introduction—describe Congress as "not very efficient at law-making because of the bipartisan division." Yeah, those annoying congressmen and senators, talking and asking questions and disagreeing with each other! So much more efficient to have just one man take all the decisions…