America, the Dictatorship
Incrementally- but noticeably- the United States is shedding its democracy. Hard-won civil liberties are willingly sacrificed for the sake of illusory added security. Institutions are stacked with Contd...
Largely ignorant of history and thus devoid of any meaningful or helpful perspective- people shrug off this doomsday scenario. They forget that Rome - a four hundred years old republic with venerable institutions like the Roman Senate - gave in to tyranny in the space of four years. The same goes for ancient Athens- the first truly participatory democracy on earth- transformed by wars into a hideous dictatorship.
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America, the Dictatorship
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