justinian
Is there a certain event that you are looking for to tell if we live in a fully fascist country yet? A few months ago I told myself “when concentration camps pop up” and it looks like we are here, but we still have freedom of speech and stuff.I feel a bit in denial about it all. We aren’t at Nazi Germany levels yet, certainly not even close, but, the camps are literally here and its terrifying because I thought the camps would be one of the last things to happen. I thought for sure that freedom of speech would be curtailed before we got camps!
we have concentration camps now, but not death camps. there’s a meaningful difference. they still have many steps to go. but to answer your question, we don’t actually have freedom of speech. the federal government can effectively do whether they want to you if you say or do things they don’t like at this point. it simply hasn’t been necessary for them to crack down en masse.