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Cheryl Fleming's avatar

But of course. Because that's EXACTLY what this is. We are witnessing a 1933 redux. These people have studied the playbook -- God knows Bannon has it memorized. How do the people in this country not understand that they're going to be extremely shocked as their freedoms are taken from them one by one, day by day, starting with the media. Freedom of speech? Hah.

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Timothy M Dwyer's avatar

I think they’ll be OK with it as long as everybody loses their freedoms. So many of our fellow citizens have long ago stopped trying to improve their lot. They just want to see everybody else be stripped of what they don’t have....

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MoosesMom's avatar

And they'll be powerless to do anything about it by that point, because "elections" will be nothing more than window-dressing...

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JF's avatar

I saw Heather Cox Richardson say to Judy Woodruff in her book tour interview that once a democracy is lost, there’s usually no return. The first Trump election was a dress rehearsal for authoritarianism.

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