[quote=CA renter]
Multiple people I know who have lived under dictatorships have all expressed a growing fear of what’s coming. They all think that the virus (and the response) and riots seem synthetic and planned. I grew up with a mother who lived under two dictatorial regimes, and she warned about these very things. The lockdowns were a dry run. IMHO, we are in seriously dangerous territory right now. People better wake up.
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So I’m confused, reading the clip above and the rest of the post I’m quoting (I shortened it for brevity).

On the one hand, you imply that we are heading towards a dictatorship. If that is the case, I would assume you are saying Trump would be the dictator. He’s the one trying to pre-emptively declare the election invalid.

On the other hand, you speak of the Democrats staging a coup.

Is it the Democrats or the Republicans you think have went over the edge?

Personally, I think the pandemic and the protests are related. The pandemic was accidental in the Chinese open markets, but when people had oodles of idle time at home, they had time to protest the practices of the police…if it hadn’t been for the home idle time, many of those police events may have gone unnoticed.