Quote:In a free and open democracy for an extended period of time? I think you're reaching.

 

Just takes the right crisis. I hope you're right, but everything I've observed is the American populace will enlarge trade rights for security, they sometimes think it might only be temporary but more times than not temporary becomes permanent. It's a long way to think we would have marshal law as you see in the movies, but a soft kill or gradual martial law is already happening. 20 years ago few of us would have believed we'd accept the compromises we see as a normal way of life today.

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