I don't think even 10% of the population of this country has any idea what we're in for if Trump's wet dream -- an totalitarian government with him as dictator -- becomes reality.

My husband's parents were born & raised in Berlin. When they moved here in 1952 they brought all their paperwork with them. In addition to identity papers, they needed permits to travel between city districts in order to go to work. This applied to everyone. /1

Any cop or other official could stop anyone at any time and demand to see their papers. If you didn't have them, you would be arrested and interrogated.

Food was rationed. There were rolling blackouts. Coal was scarce, so people were cold in the winter. His parents went from young healthy adults to people who looked as if they were 20 years older by the time the war was over.

If you think that can't or won't happen here, you need to wake up.

@Tee_Lynn
I am in my fifties and I grew up in Hungary. When the Berlin wall fell, I was finishing high school and just got the right to vote. My late Dad and my Mom are WWII kids. I can confirm every damn thing in your post.

@publickovacs

The biggest advantage we have is the ability to prepare. Republicans won't see it coming.

When Musk announced he was going to crash the economy in order to 'balance the budget,' and normal people would suffer, he was being honest -- probably for the first time in his fucking entitled life.

They will burn the whole fucking thing to the ground and create a new type of government focusing on oppressing the poor for the benefit of the wealthy.