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In reply to the discussion: Can we please put the discussion, whether the US is a police-state, to rest? [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,708 posts)Can't deny that there are some really crazy things going on with some cops out there and we really need to take a long, hard look at police tactics and procedures and clean things up. However, if you're talking about average citizens living in a totalitarian sort of "police state", I disagree that we are there. There are abuses and overreaches and we need to scale back the breadth and scope of our surveillance state and some other disturbing trends but I fail to see the comparison between USA 2014 and Nazi Germany, the USSR, or even modern day China or North Korea. Last I checked, most of us are able to go about our daily business without worrying too much about being hauled off to jails for years on end without a trial, randomly executed, and/or being sent to "re-education" centers.