I'm sure no one here at this "hotbed of subversion" (*grin*) pretends or expects that a wrong turn and decline of freedoms in the USA will bear a one-to-one correlation to Hitler's Germany. The danger some of us (well, me anyway) see is a redesign of the Republic which gives an appearance of continued democracy, while giving conservative elements something like a "thumb on the scales"........a system where laws, judges, tax laws, voting districts, media, etc., are all 'adjusted' so that basic control is always skewed in favor of one group.

*IF* this happens, it is hard to say just how far some particular president and congress would try to take it....but I don't want to find out. We have a system where both sides can debate, argue and contend reasonably fairly....and if one gets off center, the other gets a chance....

I don't want to see it move to a position where bad decisions and reduced freedoms are institutionalized.