Why are you guys so anti dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship!
– Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen
You could let one per cent of the people have all the nation’s wealth.
After 2 years of Covid, U.S. billionaires were $1.7 trillion, or 57%, richer.
You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes … and bailing them out when they gamble and lose.
You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education.
Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family.
You could wiretap phones.
You could torture foreign prisoners.
‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy
How America Tortures (pdf)
You could have rigged elections.
You could lie about why you go to war.
20 Years After Iraq War Began, a Look Back at U.S. Public Opinion | Pew Research Center
You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain.
Racial and ethnic disparities | Prison Policy Initiative
You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.
