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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Controlled State Governments Are Creating A National Authoritarian State
State by state. Law by law. We are seeing the emergence of a national fascist/authoritarian state:
1. Give the police the power to arrest and detain people if they cannot instantly prove their citizenship.
2. Enact unnecessary regulations that restrict a woman's right to choose and even invades a woman's body.
3. Allow the citizenry the right to use deadly force whenever they "feel threatened" which is an absurd standard.
4. Deny public employees the right to collectively organize and bargain with their employers.
5. Create arbitrary standards of proof to vote in elections.
Piece by piece, they are creating an authoritarian state that intrudes on the rights of the individual, and gives power to the racial majority to arrest the minority, to deny the minority the right to vote, and to literally kill racial and ethnic minorities.
polichick
(37,152 posts)...so mindless authoritarian voters never connect the dots.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,476 posts)freedom! Just ask Mitt or Rick or Newt!
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)The Obama administration HAS taken away your right to a trial before execution.
They've stated publicly that 'due process' now means 'we thought about it before we killed him'.
So there's plenty of blame to go around.
emulatorloo
(44,188 posts)I doubt any DU'ers are either.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)who wasn't really a terrorist.
Seriously?
emulatorloo
(44,188 posts)Unless of course we lie down and allow Republicans to take control of everything again.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Both parties are creating a police state.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Perhaps if it were transparent you would have a point, but the entire process and "proof" used is kept secret as part of this newly formed presidential power.
No one but them would know "If they did that".
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002454533
Constitution, schmonstitution! As long as it's under a Democratic President who knows sign language!
No President would EVER detain or assassinate someone who didn't DESERVE it!
sinkingfeeling
(51,476 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)which is funded by (surprise, surprise) the Koch brothers and their affiliates, among whom are the neo-cons. The religulously insane and the baggers are the chump footsoldiers for the 1%. Sinclair Lewis was correct - when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Also, ALEC gun legislation is very popular here, I tried to talk about it but:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=23674
http://www.democraticunderground.com/117223738
I am too tired to find out what other Alec legislative templates are embraced here (or denied existence),
I am also tired of having posts locked to please conservatives posting here.
Baitball Blogger
(46,761 posts)where a small core is rewarded for selling out everyone else, while everyone else must follow the letter of the law.
That's what my website is all about. What it's like to live in a Republican controlled municipality:
www.keystoneworksite.com
denverbill
(11,489 posts)Can you imagine the furor if Democratic legislators from all of the country got a free ticket to a union organized legislative agenda building workshop, and returned home pushing those exact laws presented by the unions in multiple states at the same time?
We can't compete with them as it stands now.
NAO
(3,425 posts)to swamp each state government with these authoritarian measures.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)the GOP's concern about "big government" has been the Great Hypocrisy for the last 40 years.
The GOP loves "Big Government"--they love controlling vaginas and bladders; the love eavesdropping on emails and phone calls; they love bailing out their 1% constituency while thumbing their noses at the 99%; they love suppressing freedom-of-speech with fascist police tactics...
The GOPers are the party of "Big Authoritarianism."
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Talk about the surveillance state! If they want to inspect my urine, they can just lie down in front of me.
There are drug testing bills moving in more than half the states.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)will realize what is happening and then its to late. Just like in nazi Germany. Beware fellow democrats you know the camps those republicans keep talking about Obama having well they might just be for us if we don't comply.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)Who could imagine!
I can and you can as well. Hopefully most independents will and even a few RePUGs will as well. It is time this November to scoot the jerks out of the house and States where the Dems lost favor from the electorate in 2010.
Auggie
(31,197 posts)emulatorloo
(44,188 posts)lovuian
(19,362 posts)they take over the Police and Justice Department and Court system
so nobody gets prosecuted and steal and steal and steal
DLC_GOPLite
(7 posts)Dems REFUSE to stand up and fight them, they would rather compromise and try to make nice with 'people' who are nothing more than thugs.
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)wouldn't you think it should be "gives power to the racial minority to arrest the majority "?
I know that is not the case yet, technically speaking, but I'd say it's on of the main reasons
why they're creating the authoritarian state in the first place. Just a thought ...
edited to delete italics function, as it is not behaving properly ... d'oh ...