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Police State: Are We Already There and Just Don't Know It? (hartmannreport.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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History shows that police states aren't declared: they're assembled piece by piece, until one day ordinary people realize the freedoms they once took for granted have quietly disappeared…

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 13 hours ago

Yes, the US has been a police state for 250 years. The slavery apparatus wasn't held up by magic. The Black Panthers didn't fall apart on their own. This is how the country has always been