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This gets an eye roll from me. The USA is certainly in a lot of danger but anyone who calls the current situation a dictatorship is ignorant of what a dictatorship is.
Here's a hint for the author: you wouldn't be getting an article like this one published in a dictatorship.
There were still protesters in Nazi Germany.
Yeah, but they were kidnapped off the street and shipped into camps oversees
...wait
Yeah, it's definitely melodramatic. I just liked the succinct description of the whole timeline.
It's still a WIP just give them a couple years.
That's my whole point. Might things be a lot worse in a couple of years? Yes. Are things as bad as this article is all about saying they are right now? No, clearly not.
"The American democratic republic is in danger of dying" is true.
"The American democratic republic has died" is histrionics, and histrionics are particularly counterproductive at a time when what's actually going on is so serious.
The trajectory is pretty well set, though. There is no "might" get worse anymore, it will get worse without radical intervention. It is simply cope to believe that there is any reasonable possibility that this could just blow over.
It is worth treating with the gravity it deserves, even if there aren't Right Wing Death Squads executing dissidents in the streets this very moment.
Don't worry, someone else will surely stop this before it affects me.
Yeah fair, that's a reasonable criticism. I noticed the melodramatic air to the piece too.