• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    This has been the case since the Patriot Act was passed during Bush’s Presidency after 9/11.

    And let’s not forget the massive civil society surveillance aparatus that Snowden revealed…

    The US has been moving away from Democracy and into Authoritanism for a long time, all with full bipartisan approval.

    Trump or somebody like him getting elected and taking the gloves of the whole authoritarianism aparatus that was built and supported by previous Administrations, was always going to happen.

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      6 days ago

      The US has been moving away from Democracy and been Authoritarian since it’s creation, all with full bipartisan approval.

      Ftfy