According to Steyn, we already display many of the symptoms thereof. I share with you his conclusion:
A banana republic doesn’t happen overnight; it’s a sensibility, and it’s difficult to mark the precise point at which a free society decays into something less respectable. Pace Obama, ever swelling debt, contracts for cronies, a self-enriching bureaucracy, a shrinking middle class preyed on by corrupt tax collectors, and thuggish threats against anyone who disagrees with you put you pretty far down the banana-strewn path.I hope you are familiar with Steyn's arch prepositional usage of "pace," from the Latin pronounced "pah-chey." Dictionary.com defines it as "with all due respect to; with the permission of."
