Until Trump, I never imagined how fragile

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37. I had very good history and civics teachers along with a very wise parent who taught me how fragile freedom is

Oppressive regimes are harder to topple and many take forces from the outside where as democracies are much more fragile and are easily toppled from the inside. The simple fact that we are free is both the strength and the weakness. It is that delicate balance our country must always walk.

Much of what is being done is a culmination of a slow and steady war on our freedom for a very long time that has been completely ignored. Much of what this AssHat has been doing was enabled by remnants still in our laws from The Patriot Act which vastly expanded the powers of the Executive branch and consolidated many parts of government under one umbrella in DHS which both should have been removed and absolved when we had the chance in 2008-10. In line with what put him and the critters in power were the several SCOTUS rulings that gave money a vote. We had a couple of chances to counter SCOTUS with the check the founders meant to have on them by passing laws against that.

We are not going to fix this by passing a bunch of more restrictive laws as that is counter to the freedoms our founders envisioned. Rather a combination of new laws along with repealing oppressive legislation retaining the balance the founders intended.
IMHO
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