I do hope many writing in this thread are not American, because if you are and this is your attitude, you are scheduled for bad wake up call. Please, study fascism and authoritarianism in depth. Hanna Arendt is a good start.
Note how I wrote “most western european countries”. The USA is on a pretty bad trajectory, but there are 27 countries in the EU and only one country in the USA. In fact, the USA are not western european at all.
I do hope many writing in this thread are not American, because if you are and this is your attitude, you are scheduled for bad wake up call. Please, study fascism and authoritarianism in depth. Hanna Arendt is a good start.
Note how I wrote “most western european countries”. The USA is on a pretty bad trajectory, but there are 27 countries in the EU and only one country in the USA. In fact, the USA are not western european at all.