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See, my problem is that I see politics from a historical viewpoint. I see the gridlock in Congress, the public and commercial debt, the rise of the unitary executive w/ dictatorial authority, and a practically apathetic populace that only screams to be entertained or pseudo-outraged as an exact replay of the end of the Roman Republic - the next stop wont be an ‘emperor’, but I do think that in the last eight years we have seriously weakened the strength of the Constitution that keeps us a republic. We are heading for an authoritarian state, one that will be populist in appeal, but ironfisted against dissent. It will be the end of liberty. People think that means Nazi SS on every street corner demanding your papers, but really it exists when people become too afraid or unconcerned to demand that the government account for its actions. You don’t need torchlight parades and concentration camps to be a dictatorship, it just means that executive power breaks the reins of the people - the primary and most serious fear of our founding fathers - and why the Constitution matters.
— The Immoderate Moderate
