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mk · 3845 days ago · link · · parent · post: David Greene, EFF: UNSEALED: The US Sought Permission To Change The Historical Record Of A Public Court Proceeding
I don't know. Hopefully the Reign of Terror happens two doors down, and your leaders take the hint. IMO the RoT is most likely when the system is no longer able to bend, and only breaks. To me, the most worrisome developments in the US aren't so much the policies that I don't like, but changes that prevent grass-root pressures from inducing those changes. The consolidation of media (due to the erosion of media market regulations), and the unfettered influence of money in legislation (i.e. Citizen's United), are the disease. I doesn't matter much if the symptoms agree or disagree with my politics when my politics were never considered. That's the ongoing folly of the American Right.