Miami condo developer Jorge Perez said President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportations risk leading to a “police state” while also fueling new increases in consumer prices.
You’re describing a dictatorship. That’s not what police state means. They often go together but each can exist without the other. A multiparty representative government is perfectly capable of running a police state, and the US has been doing so since 2002.
After 9/11 the federal government, through the Patriot act and others like it, gave themselves the power to spy on everything a citizen does, detain them indefinitely, torture them, seize their assets, or declare them an enemy combatant and target them with a drone.
The US was a police state long before Trump came along. He’s a symptom. Maybe even an inevitability.
So who was the single person who all authority figures bent the knee to before Trump?
You’re describing a dictatorship. That’s not what police state means. They often go together but each can exist without the other. A multiparty representative government is perfectly capable of running a police state, and the US has been doing so since 2002.
After 9/11 the federal government, through the Patriot act and others like it, gave themselves the power to spy on everything a citizen does, detain them indefinitely, torture them, seize their assets, or declare them an enemy combatant and target them with a drone.
The US was a police state long before Trump came along. He’s a symptom. Maybe even an inevitability.