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? When would you know? 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 a 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 our government has become  a dictatorship when one looks around in a coffee shop or a restaurant first before whispering condemnation of those in power. It’s when we consider those in power tyrants, but are too afraid to say so out loud or in any media. Eventually one will be afraid to say anything negative in public with all the mass surveillance in play. Continue reading →