Listen to the awful things going on today is the beginning of the end of the US

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I read a book in the 70’s called It can’t happen here by Sinclair Lewis and it is definitely a foreshadowing of what is going on now.

In 1936, American Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip enters the presidential election campaign on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 per year. Portraying himself as a champion of "the forgotten man" and "traditional" American values, Windrip defeats incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, and then beats his Republican opponent, Senator Walt Trowbridge, in the November election.

Having previously foreshadowed some authoritarian measures to reorganize the government, Windrip outlaws dissent, incarcerates political enemies in concentration camps, and trains and arms a paramilitary force called the "Minute Men" (named after the Revolutionary War militias of the same name), who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of a corporatist regime. One of Windrip's first acts as president is to eliminate the influence of Congress, which draws the ire of many citizens as well as the legislators themselves. The Minute Men respond to protests harshly, attacking demonstrators with bayonets. In addition to these actions, Windrip's administration, known as the Corpo government, curtails women's and minority rights, and eliminates individual states by subdividing the country into administrative sectors. * The government of these sectors is managed by Corpo authorities, usually prominent businessmen or Minute Men officers. Those accused of crimes against the government appear before kangaroo courts presided over by military judges. A majority of Americans approve of these dictatorial measures, seeing them as painful but necessary steps to restore American power.

* maybe thats why he let the January 6th thugs out of prison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here

The similarities are so eerily what is going now. It’s as if one of his cult members read it and is using it as blueprint for the horror we are going to face sooner rather than later. I hate to be alarmist but I think our country is going to collapse in the next 3 months as the oligarchs take our social security money and give it to Wall Street to gamble with and you only get it if you support the dictator 🍑💩🤡. I am so sad and ashamed of my country.

But please talk me down…..