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We're well on our way down the hill to some sort of new Nazism. And I don't mean the skin-head Neo-Nazis shouting about white pride/power.
When we've arrived at the point where a Democrat President has a secret "kill list" and any male of a certain age in range of one of our armed drones is fair game we're screwed. Benghazi is never going to be a reason for impeachment. Quite frankly though, the "kill list" and orders to strike and assassinate US citizens with armed drones without any public due process oversight should be. But since war is profitable to the GOP corporate benefactors in the MIC I doubt we'll ever see the GOP question the President on this. Not to mention they want to preserve the ability of the President to do these things for when they get the next GOP candidate in office.
Just wait for the upcoming battle on re-authorizing the amendments to FISA that allow for the warrantless wire-tapping the NSA has been doing. The Dems may put up a faux fight but they'll roll over because they want it just as bad as the GOP.
I've been reading just how pervasive drone surveillance is becoming over US skies and it scares the hell out of me. Sure, I can see deploying drones on our southern border to fill in gaps where we just can't have the manpower instead. It's a long border and lots of drugs and human trafficking happen there. So using some technology to augment border patrol agents makes sense to me. But the drones are starting to creep out into the rest of the continent through local law enforcement.
It's not just the NRA. Our entire government is trudging, not all that slowly, towards fascism. The military-industrial complex and the lifetime-appointed generals/admirals are quite a force in our government. I've posted before that they have become a de facto fourth branch of our government. One of the fears of our Founding Fathers was a standing military becoming too powerful and too influential. Seems like they were right.
Add on to that the private prison-industrial complex so entangled with law enforcement and state legislatures at the local level. States are being asked by the PIC to keep the occupancy of prisons at 90% as part of the contracts they sign with these private corrections corporations. What kind of behavior do we think that will incentives among law enforcement?
You realize it, I realize it, but most people just continue in deep denial and want to believe their elected representatives are still representing them when they clearly are not.
I should read Mein Kampf. I have no doubt you are correct in your assessment that just changing the cover and updating some passages would see it finding wide acceptance today. Hell, I can take passages from the Bible and show them to "Christians" and they don't have a freaking clue the passages are from that book they think is inerrant and literally true. So I'm sure you're right.
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