What Does a Dictatorship Look Like?

Liz Cheney recently told an interviewer that if Trump got elected, we would see a slow slide into a dictatorship.
In the second half of the show, about the 24 minute mark, I look into what a slow slide into a dictatorship looks like.

Your American Heritage 12 02 2023

 

So she’s afraid of a slow slide into a dictatorship. 

I think I’ve been seeing that lately.
Now, what does a dictatorship look like?
Using War as a distraction. Trying to unite the people with you against an external threat. Oldest trick in the book.
Gangs are allowed to run rampant in the streets as long as they support your political philosophy.
     If you know anything about Mussolini or Hitler, you remember their street gangs that terrorized citizens.
     The black Shirts and the Brown Shirts.
Tell private industry what they can and can’t manufacture for the good of the nation.
     If you know anything about Mussolini or Hitler, you know that unlike the Soviets, they did not confiscate private industry,  they co-opted it. They let it go as long as it did what they told it to.  Why take on the burden of managing something when all you have to do is let the managers to which you want them to do.
      Ban internal combustion engines, ban clean coal power plants. Give taxpayer money to your buddies to build windmills and solar farms  and telling the utility industry that they must use these instead of the infrastructure that they invested in previously. 
Insist Automakers build electric vehicles that don’t sell and stop producing cars people want.
Nearly 4,000 auto dealers sent a letter to President Biden asking him to tap the brakes on EV regulations.

But what right does the government have to mandate that you buy a full Electric vehicle at higher initial cost and higher repair costs?

They want to ban gas stoves, portable generators, gas lawn mowers, stuff people want to buy.
They say they want to protect the planet, but everything they propose gives them more dictatorial powers.

What else do dictators do?
They ignore constitutional law regarding first amendment rights, they go to media and social platforms and dictate what speech they can allow. We saw that revealed when Elon Musk bought Twitter.

They Ignore the law and second amendment rights by unilaterally changing regulations regarding weapons and accessories. Dictatorships always disarm the populace. Prove me wrong.

They turn government agencies against those out of favor. And away from those IN favor.
They jail their political enemies, send the IRS after them. These are hallmarks of a dictatorship.
Rule that you have to accommodate people’s feelings by insisting under penalty of law in this state that if a lawyer misgenders someone they can lose their license and/or go to jail or face a fine.
How are you supposed to know how to address someone without a program?

Subpoena your oppositions donors to go after a supreme court justice you want removed to shove your agenda through the courts. but ignore Epstein’s flight logs and videos because they may damage your side.
You say both sides do this? I can’t think of an instance of conservatives doing this. Certainly not as policy.

Dictators take your children from you and do what they will. She thinks it’s so cute and amusing to subvert the will of you for your children and impose her own beliefs on them.

They indoctrinate them in their own political and personal philosophy and ignore you and your will for your children.

They ignore Immigration Law. Allow people to cross the border with no restraint to further your agenda.

They take your housing and give it to a favored class.
Dozens of NYC Seniors Evicted From Nursing Home Turned Into Migrant Shelter. Dozens of seniors in New York, including a 94-year-old Army veteran named Frank Tammaro, were evicted from their senior center, which was then converted into a migrant shelter.

City officials have estimated that tens of thousands of migrants have entered the city since last spring, which is costing around $5 million per day. Mayor Eric Adams, who previously boasted about NYC being a “sanctuary” for migrants, has more recently complained about the influx of migrants.

Let’s take a show of hands.
How many believe the illegal migrants funded the center with their taxes?
OK. How many people believe those seniors taxes funded that senior center? OK,
Well, that was easy. You can put your hands down.