I do agree that it is going to be far more difficult for this to happen in the US as a whole. Oh you will have your havens like California where you basically have people who go along with it, but as a whole, in the US you can't get away with what they are doing to the citizenry in Australia. An actual armed populace makes a huge difference. I live in the most liberal town in my state, the only county that votes democrat every year, and it is a bit of a hippy city, but even then if they were doing what they are doing in Australia the population simply wouldn't stand for it.
The bigger problem would be the news media not reporting it so no one knows. That is what is scary in the short term. You have huge swaths of populations who have no idea what any huge thing like this happens anymore just because one channel doesn't cover it.
My bigger fear is the slow trickling away of our rights over the next 20+ years and whatnot... and people just going along with it that way, and THEN it ends up happening after 20+ more years of boiling the frog of rights away...
I do agree that it is going to be far more difficult for this to happen in the US as a whole. Oh you will have your havens like California where you basically have people who go along with it, but as a whole, in the US you can't get away with what they are doing to the citizenry in Australia. An actual armed populace makes a huge difference. I live in the most liberal town in my state, the only county that votes democrat every year, and it is a bit of a hippy city, but even then if they were doing what they are doing in Australia the population simply wouldn't stand for it.
The bigger problem would be the news media not reporting it so no one knows. That is what is scary in the short term. You have huge swaths of populations who have no idea what any huge thing like this happens anymore just because one channel doesn't cover it.
My bigger fear is the slow trickling away of our rights over the next 20+ years and whatnot... and people just going along with it that way, and THEN it ends up happening after 20+ more years of boiling the frog of rights away...