How will Americans adjust to life in an authoritarian state?

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To understand the apparent mechanism, by which our government controls our propaganda that we are fed.
You need not look too much further than 9/11, debacle . Where when our President was in a elementary school
reading in or to a class and the Secret Service told him that the country was under attack . His reaction at that moment was not of a surprised or indignant reaction . Or to leave immediately to take his role as president,
. But to malinger . And sit peacefully. As a man whom was already aware of the events. Then building three was demolished,to the ground .Never stuck by any plane. And the media spin was to have us declare a War on a Country that had no apparent connection and destroy it...Not even Weapons of mass destruction were found.MOST ODD, one of the benefits to the authoritarian State was to remove privacy rights via the Patriot Act. Calling for a vote on it. As urgent as a declaration of War,So noone got to examine the situations, Or Informed persons could have thought it through. Had worked in the special effects industry,( old school) NOT CGI graphics,Have seen buildings demolished in various locations aswell . The Building were demolished , via demolition,by all outward appearances . Where was the concern for human life then, Innocent Americans died , en Masse, during and afterwards.Due to this event.
Why was the Gov.not concerned with those persons in those building.( value of human life?)
So when the time Comes .. You can be assured there will most likely some new equally dramatic event .
That will shock the Entire majority of the population and we Will happily go along with it to give up further rights , ex-freedoms. To be made to believe it will be to ensure their own safety, comfort or just plain spoiled ease or because that is what they have become used to that is how the Corporate Media Empire, , hand in hand with the current Government controls.
But whatever they do to remove more civil rights, It will be spun, in such a way that people will want that.
It will be up to the millenials and other Gen.s people growing up here to suffer and endure these things.Or to actually elect and put forth new people whom will be FOR THE PEOPLE

As an American, I would just leave. I'm leaving as soon I have the opportunity. The United States is a burning tire fire like Springfield or Gotham City. Kids are making jokes about school shooting. And you know, that's fine, dark humor is fine. But what f**king society do we live in where literal children have to cope with life and death situations because a couple of idiots don't want to give up their precious death weapons if they happen to flunk a psych exam. Someone put an NRA flag next to my middle school.
This isn't our only issue, but I'm just so mad about it right now. Ban guns.

IF the USA ever did go authoritarian, it wouldn't take all that much adjusting to adjust to IMO. Same for Canada and other "democracies," where the will of the people isn't reflected in the laws politicians create and force upon the population. Laws are bought by Billionaires and wealthy corporations via lobbyists and political campaign contributions, not created to reflect what constituents want to live by.

That's why the average person opposes green lighting & subsidizing environmentally destructive projects, yet they go ahead all the time. Same thing plays out for all sorts of things big & small. People don't actually get a say in sweet f**k all in our so-called "democracies," so I can see how some people are tired of this s**t and embrace change.

Thing is, I think their embrace of trumplestiltskin is a dead wrong move. Ok to want change.. but choose something better, not measurably worse in every possible way. No sense in going straight backwards because you're fed up with not moving forwards. IMO.

But overall, people are already used to being told what to do by someone else who decided, so it really wouldn't be that big of a transition in that sense. It'd just be pretty wild if some of the absolutely ridiculous things were implemented that rolled back human rights by a Century. Those things would take some getting used to/getting the f**k outta there. That would be my move if Canada ever decided to go full Ridiculous. I'd leave. To where? I dunno. Maybe overseas.. maybe just into the woods away from all the morons doing their moronic s**t.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I don't think I can adjust, and I don't want to think about what would happen to any opposition or resistance.

I don't live in the US and I feel sorry for those who do - women in particular. When the government - via judges - feels free to impose what a person will / should do with their own body (I'm speaking about abortion rights and free choice) it doesn't seem far-fetched to speak of some sort of "authoritarian state", sadly. The experience might be very different from a male point of view, I don't know.

Even sadder is the fact that the "liberal left" is collapsing under the weight of its own performative contradictions and compromises; it leaves the door wide open for any "Old Man Trump" to come and pretend to speak for the "ordinary people" (the "deplorables") - who feel legitimately let down by those who should have their best interests in mind. The sort of "authoritarian right" that shows its ugly head more and more in the US (but not only) truly deserves a serious critique and then some. But if the "liberal left" keeps refusing any form of self-criticism and doesn't go back soon to some serious and solid intellectual and philosophical foundations and praxis[i][/I], I fear the worst not only for the United States but for the Republican ideal in itself.

On paper, the USA will still be nominally free. In practice, many unconstitutional state and local laws that contradict the spirit of the Constitution will be enforced with little challenge. It'll be a free-on-paper stance, and it's happening right now as we speak.

How will Americans react? Like a frog in a boiling pot with the heat slowly being turned up.

Already in the stew.....blurble..blurble...

Quick before they bann shovels...! , Dig a hole and pull it in after yourself.....