Reply #60: Our police force are not jackboots.

[ellisonz]

Often corrupted and occasionally excessive in force. Where you see jackboots, I see Bobbies and Redcoats. I cited my personal experience in response to the claim that I was "befuddled."

I will make up my own mind. But I think it's fair to say that the overwhelming opinion of academia is that we are in no way approaching what life was like in either the Weimar Republic or the Third Reich.

There is plenty of room for disagreement.

You have no need to "convert me to the cause."

I think maybe I will have to start a poll on this very questions so we can see what DU at large thinks on this question of whether or not life in America "resembles" that of the Third Reich.