Yes, Rapaire, that has always been the toughest thing about managing a really effective dictatorship. You need so many people to enforce it. So many carry-outers. If you can get a majority of the people to support the government, though, it's not nearly so hard. For that you need a supposed threat. A boogeyman. The boogeyman can be either foreign or domestic. To have both is even better.

It can be done. You need the boogeymen. You need provocations (violent acts of destruction, supposedly committed by the boogymen). You need a state of fear, even panic. You need a compliant, subservient, bought media. You need ruthless men at the top. You need soldiers and police who will follow orders. You need a steady flow of fearmongering propaganda.

Those ingredients have all been achieved in the USA already. The strongest thing standing in the way of such a takeover is the weight of past democratic tradition and free ideals in your society...and the presence of some, I should think in your government and military who are willing to defend it. That and common sense.

The same goes for Canada. The same goes for the UK.