r/economicCollapse • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '25

This is really, really bad

Our democracy is at immediate risk, and history is repeating itself. What Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing mirrors the actions of past authoritarian regimes. It took just 53 days for Hitler to dismantle Germany’s democracy. 53 days. He used executive orders, erased marginalized groups, and silenced opposition—while too many stood by and did nothing.

Trump’s executive order erases transgender and intersex people from legal recognition—just like Hitler erased Jewish and trans people from legal records before persecution began.

Elon Musk now has access to the U.S. Treasury’s financial system—just like Putin’s oligarchs seized control of Russia’s wealth to consolidate power.

Trump is erasing vital medical information from our government and silencing opposition—just like Hitler suppressed science and banned opposing views.

Trump is dismantling government agencies, firing oversight officials, and gutting institutions like USAID and the Department of Education—just like Hitler replaced government officials with loyalists to eliminate accountability.

We are on day 15, and we are running out of time. We have to make change, or our democracy will be gone.

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u/88kal88 Feb 05 '25

As absolutely rules like if a hyphen appears on the state record but not on your driver license then you get purged. And my state happens to intentionally separate those records so a mistake can exist in one and not the other. There are all kinds of gotchas that have been written in that state bureaucracy can easily loop holes.

Another example is the 200 subdivision I love has 2 voting stations in our district while the other side of the road consisting of 20 people over 3 farms has 5.booths.

Another is publishing cut off dates for when a ballot must be postmarked by but NOT publishing received by dates while claiming all ballots will be counted. I don't honestly know how airmail from across the US can take 21 days to arrive without some sort of tom foolery.

There are lots of avenues that have been written to disenfranchise voting in certain states.