02-20-2017, 12:58 AM
1. Dissolution of existing alliances, most notably NATO. It wouldn't be because security concerns of NATO members disappear, as with the democratization of Russia (should that ever happen), but instead with the descent of a key player into despotism.
2. Assassinations or disappearances of politicians, journalists, academics, and entrepreneurs who dissent with the President or other high officials.
3.Rewriting (including amendments) of the Constitution to endorse dictatorial tendencies. Something that establishes the Republican Party as the 'leading force in American politics, makes serfdom a norm in employment, or extends the range of capital punishment to such property crimes as theft.
4. Rise of politicized militias and of youth groups connected to the leading Party.
5. For real anarchy in the legal process, gutting of stare decisis.
Tyranny is anything but order. It is madness.
2. Assassinations or disappearances of politicians, journalists, academics, and entrepreneurs who dissent with the President or other high officials.
3.Rewriting (including amendments) of the Constitution to endorse dictatorial tendencies. Something that establishes the Republican Party as the 'leading force in American politics, makes serfdom a norm in employment, or extends the range of capital punishment to such property crimes as theft.
4. Rise of politicized militias and of youth groups connected to the leading Party.
5. For real anarchy in the legal process, gutting of stare decisis.
Tyranny is anything but order. It is madness.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.