The Police States Of America
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491_9781734674613
Has Donald Trumps farcical attempts to overturn the election of 2020 been no more than a brief break with democratic norms, or are we in for much worse in the future? Can America still be considered the worlds preeminent democracy even though we live under minority rule?What? You dont think we live under minority rule in the United States? Consider this: Since each state gets two Senators, Wyoming, with less than 700,000 people, is represented by the same number of Senators as Californias nearly 40,000,000 residents. To put it another way, a citizen in Wyoming has 57 times as much representation in the U.S Senate as does a citizen in California. And, as Mitch McConnell has made all of us painfully aware, he who controls the Senate gets to decide who sits on the Supreme Court. Over the past four years, a President who lost the popular vote by 3 million votes and a Senate representing a minority of U.S. citizens have installed three conservative Supreme Court justices. This is a power grab that will affect America for decades.What does this mean for America? Have we ever truly had a government of the people, or is that just propaganda to keep us in denial? Is the U.S.A. destined to become a third-world police state? Is the Alt-Right in the countrys DNA, like a birth defect that has been there since the nations founding?Why is our justice system so unjust? Why does there seem to be an ever-increasing number of policing organizations with an ever-increasing number of law enforcement officers? Could there be a correlation? What drives the continuing transformation of The United States Of America into The Police States Of America?Originally published in 2018, this book has even more relevance today. The statistics highlighted in the original version have not been updated. If anything, however, those numbers have only gotten worse. What will it take to improve? How do we stop our nations descent into fascism? This short work attempts to answer these q
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