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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Honestly, a post like that makes me kind of sad. Whether or not you agree with the vid he posted or think he's a bit over the top he is certainly right that a bill such as this getting past two houses is disturbing. The US democracy is crumbling, and these kinds of bills are signs of a time when people ought to be upset and speaking out to protect that democracy and their freedoms.
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Looking at the history of human civilization, democracies and free societies (using the word "free" loosely), do not tend to last for a very long time. Most humans that have ever lived, and probably at least half that currently live, do not live in democratic situations where liberty is a protected quality. For the past 5000 years or so, different societies have tried to have democratic societies and protection of liberties, but most fall after a few hundred years at the longest. While I wouldn't want to live in a dictatorship personally, it has never been proven that our natural social setting as humans is in a democratic society.
I guess is what I am getting at is that I think democracy will eventually fall in the U.S. (and the rest of the Western world)... "when" is the only question.