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Eleanors38

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14. Actually, I don't fear confiscation...
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 04:21 PM
Mar 2016

...but rather the government's call for such is the best indicator that fascism is formally coalescing. I don't expect such an effort would be successful, btw.

You are correct that the country has been diddling with fascism for the last generation or so (you may be interested in BuschCo's efforts to suspend/erase the Posse Comitatus Act in the immediate wake of Katrina.). But for now, the chief problem we face with out collapsing system of governance is the lack of coherent, effective, or even identifiable opposition to any corporatst or corporatist-demagogue that happens along. (That is the chief reason I back Sanders: He could be the last train out.)The problem is closer to home.

History is littered with the overthrow of heavily-armed regimes when faced with determined groups and their small arms. The U.S. should know, having backed so many of the former.

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