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In reply to the discussion: Those that believe we can lose our democracy and get it back in 2 or 4 years... [View all]Scruffy1
(3,528 posts)All my life I've lived in a proto fascist state-the good old USA. It's was started as an oligarchy and the few reforms ever made were long hard fights.It's baked into the Constitution of the United States. That is why we are taught that a document that allows slave owners is holy. It also guarantees unequal representation in the Senate. We have been teetering on the edge all my life. I remember the FBI and the anti-war movement and the assassination of Fred Hampton. Nothing has changed. As long as propaganda is more cost effective than force the government will use it, but if that fails, anything goes. Who you going to complain to? The Trump attorney general? The FBI? (I have actually seen people posting that the FBI should investigate things) That's like asking the cat to investigate who killed the canary. Nixon committed treason in 1968, The Reagan people in 1980. Nothing happened to them, and nothing will happen to T-rump.
The bright side is that the National Socialist were smarter than the Tea Party idiots so I don't think they will be able to hold power very long. They created a new class of financial instrument with the backing of the bankers and big industrialist and managed to reduce unemployment greatly and raise the standard of living with massive infrastructure projects. They never even had consumer austerity during the war because they were afraid of losing support. The Tea Party dopes will never sign off on massive debt, so I don't think it will get off the ground and I'm hoping privatization won't fly.Besides which the party insiders despise T-rump and will stick a knife in his back every chance they get. If they revive the night of the long knives we might be in serious trouble, but I really can't see this clown car being successful in anything.