If someone has spent any time in a real police state, you won't be confused that the US is one of them.
Am I happy with the path we are on... NO! Do I think we have lost some rights and freedoms ... YES! Is this Syria... come on.
But I don't think there can be any denying we ARE on the road towards that sort of outcome. With every person that accepts more and more gov't intrusion, or as they like to couch it "security measures", or folks who believe that gov't has the right to "encourage" healthy lifestyles by taxing foods (that we already subsidize, wtf?) deemed unhealthy, more liberty is trampled. Having read a few of your posts, I think you're mostly sympatico with this train of thought. I don't think anyone is claiming the US is a totalitarian state right now. The issue is that we see ambivalence to tyrannical overtures by the populace as a whole, so long as they are kept pacified with the idea of security, and that they can buy their way to happiness (just so long as the police can check their bags on the way out of the store, to check for "contraband"), and it frightens some folks. I can tell you that I personally am uncomfortable with the idea that I am being asked repeatedly to trust the authorities more and more, without an explanation. Madison must be clawing at the inside of his tomb to get out and smack us all upside the heads.
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