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Do Americans Know How Much Trouble They’re In?
A President who invokes absolute authority to…pardon himself. An ambassador to Germany who declares he wants to…topple the German government. Senators — the most powerful people in democracy, save the President — knocking on the door of a “detainment center”, looking for kids separated from their parents, only to be denied by guards who…laugh at them contemptuously, call the police, and have them shooed away like nobodies.
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I can tell you, from experience, these things are never obvious to people who live through them, and they’ll actually call you paranoid or a conspiracy theorist for bringing them up. In Venezuela we have a saying for this, “no, vale, yo no creo”, which roughly translates to “no, man, I don’t think so”, but really means more than that. It represents the disbelief that things can actually go to hell so badly when you’re in a society where everything works reasonably well. But they can. Look at Venezuela.
Had to use a private window to bypass their stupid log in crap... Anyway, yes I have often wondered if we are following in Venezuela's footsteps. I am scared.
Willing to bet the good old days in someone's eyes, were the bad old days in someone else's.