re: America is a Fascist State. America is not a Communist State.

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And when did our freedom start to decline? When lots of people said 'There oughtta be a law!'
But most of those 'The govt oughtta do something!' types were not allowed to vote. Then the 19th amendment was passed.

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Westerners been writing about this since at least the 19th century. Lord Acton, who wrote that absolute power corrupts absolutely, was worried about it. Technology is why we're less free, because it empowers fewer and fewer people to exert more and more control over the masses.

Industrialization is probably when things got worse for most people. Up to that time, ordinary people were masters of their fate in a way that we don't appreciate.