Welcome to third-world America, where:
The prospect of free and fair elections becomes more tenuous;
The gap between the rich and the poor gets bigger;
Tax rates of the rich go down, while benefits of the working class and poor, including health care, keep shrinking;
The ruling family’s business keeps growing with visible links to their political posts;
Pseudo science trumps fact-based science;
Scientific knowledge is subsumed to the will of the executive;
Vaccines to prevent deadly diseases are not promoted, they’re even critiqued as possible transmitters of illness;
Armed military troops patrol cities though no riots are occurring;
Police brutality, especially against minorities, rises;
Educational standards are lessened;
Environmental protections are watered down; pollution causing fossil fuel industries are encouraged with fewer emissions controls; renewable energy programs are discouraged;
Free press laws are under assault;
Executive action supersedes legislative action and cooperation;
Unqualified personnel are placed on judiciary and governmental panels;
Judicial rubber stamps validate questionably legal executive actions;
Unswerving loyalty to the executive is considered more important than truth-telling;
Military and sport spectacles are promulgated by the executive as balms for the masses;
“Separate and not equal” is acceptable government practice;
LGBTQ rights are trampled.
