• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    If anyone wants a reality check: Trump will install cronies everywhere who will fabricate charges and evidence to put ANYONE in jail. The courts are packed in most states with people he appointed. This is a police state.

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          9 days ago

          Youā€™re describing a dictatorship. Thatā€™s not what police state means. They often go together but each can exist without the other. A multiparty representative government is perfectly capable of running a police state, and the US has been doing so since 2002.

          After 9/11 the federal government, through the Patriot act and others like it, gave themselves the power to spy on everything a citizen does, detain them indefinitely, torture them, seize their assets, or declare them an enemy combatant and target them with a drone.

          The US was a police state long before Trump came along. Heā€™s a symptom. Maybe even an inevitability.