The American 1st Amendment is called First for a reason

What will occur to let us know when the United States becomes a full dictatorship? How will you know we’ve moved beyond an authoritarian, wannabe king to a true totalitarian despotism? How would you know? 

The answer in today’s 21st Century America may be surprisingly simple: when one becomes too afraid to sent a text to a friend or relative criticizing  Donald Trump and his regime, and when one realizes they’re too scared to post anti-MAGA comments in a social media feed. We can tell it’s now a dictatorship when one looks around in a coffee shop or a restaurant first before whispering condemnation of those tyrants in power. Eventually one will be afraid to say anything negative in public with all the mass surveillance in play. Continue reading →