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Paladin's avatar

No way!

Never!

Not here!

Could not happen here.

This is a free country, a constitutional democratic republic bound by the rule of law, with a written constitution to protect rights and enforce duties.

When I was a kid and this was a free country, we elected those who make our laws, and lawmakers were accountable to the people. They would not, they could not have enacted and enforced such laws of totalitarianism as you describe.

Not here!

No, nay, never!

Not when I was a kid and this was a free country.

But now I'm not a kid, and since 2020 I do not recognize my country, except by comparison to Russia in 1917, to Weimar Germany in 1935 to China in 1955 and, most frightening, to Canada and Australia in 2022, both of which were culturally and legally very much like the USA and both of which were free countries until 2020, but both of which in 2022 are no longer free countries.

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Albion's avatar

Thank you! Also - it was Franklin D. Roosevelt who was President in that period, not Theodore his cousin.

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