Comment by RIMR

>To be clear no the US is not a full blown violent dictatorship.

The key word you forgot here is "yet".

>Even through things are bad, they are not "that" bad.

They will get "that" bad if you take on the attitude that things aren't that bad.

>IMHO there seem to be people in the government which want to make it exactly that bad.

We should act accordingly then.