[higherpurpose]

I've been thinking for a while about something: Americans really need to live through a Communist/Stasi era that brings them to their knees and to live in fear of their neighbors or anyone working in the government for at least 2 decades or so.

Maybe after that ends with a revolution to be remembered, such nonsense would stop being proposed at least for another century or two.

Many Americans seem to quick to agree with mass surveillance and absolute power of the state if it they promise (without even proof of it) that such power will stop some common crime - without taking a second to recognize that if the state is so powerful so many more crimes will be done by that government against the population.

It seems many Americans have lost forgotten why their rights are important. That's why I think maybe they need to go through a really oppressive time, to remember.

[infruset]

So your cure to the sickness is to bring about the sickness itself?

The good thing about this point of view is that you will be happy whatever happens.