That's a good point. So, what's the difference? At what point does a situation become tyranny? What is the correct way to describe the conditions that occur in the lead up before actual tyranny can be said to begin?
Americans won't notice the onset of tyranny because we're on slow frog boil in losing our rights and privileges for the past 50 years. The Fed Govt is being allowed to exceed their Constitution and general powers bounds. The fact that now most everyone in Congress LOVES having the world's most awesome spy agency doing Domestic Surveillance is a primary example of how far we're already into tyranny.
There's also the tyranny of the 2 Brand Name parties. Each of which is WRECKING the confidence and efficacy of the American political system in a way that Putin could never DREAM of accomplishing. They got to go. There are 535 members of Congress and only FOUR of those control every debate, vote, debate and the SPEECH of their members. They run the place, the others are irrelevant.
Why is Ayn Rand (or other foreigners) who came here to escape tyranny important? Because they can recognize the "slow boil" that we under cooking out our Civil Liberties and Freedom in a way those IN the pot cannot.
Trump is just a symptom of the failures to guard freedom/liberty. Words you hardly ever hear on the campaign trail anymore -- and CERTAINLY --- not from the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists.
When the 2 parties offered you two MASSIVELY flawed meglomaniacal power whores as a choice, it's time to jump out of the pot and start thinking about voting for INDEPENDENT and 3rd party choices. You're NOT WINNING by "voting for winners" -- you're losing most times you do that. So does about 60% of America LOSE at every election -- if you count the Big Middle and all the folks self-exiled from the party madness and those don't vote, but whine incessantly about politics..
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