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Yes, but with things like this, the current US government is actually trying to create a legal basis on which it can make undesirable people disappear. Just like the Nazis did in the Third Reich.
It's about establishing an unjust state with the corresponding legal means.
I really think that plans are being made here to establish a dictatorship. There are many other signs of this.
The plans were made by the middle of 2024. Project 2025 is well underway.
I'm from Germany and am only observing the situation from afar. Are there any efforts to prevent the US from becoming a fascist state?
I know, of course, that people are taking to the streets and that this is not being reported adequately by the media. But what is the plan?
In any case, there seems to be no serious resistance from the Democratic Party...
It's much the same problem you guys had in the 1920s. Hate is easy. Cruelty is the norm. Humanity, like the chimpanzee we're closest related to, is a very 'in-group/out-group' species. You're either one of us, or you're a threat to be beaten down and killed. Hate is easy to stoke, especially when things are tough. And don't forget -- Hitler studied hate-filled regimes world-wide before he put together his authoritarian empire, and one he studied hard was the US Southeast. Abuse of 'inferior' people was a way of life for them!
Standing up could get you killed in these not-so-United States, so a lot of us try to keep our heads down and be 'Good Americans'...
If there are, they aren't being reported on. It seems American individualism will kill us all