re: #194 kirkspencer

Literally no. Functionally, sometimes. Also, consider state governments as well as federal.

I am. They’re all extremely, extremely far from ‘authoritarian’. We are incredibly lucky, even with the bizarre assholes in the GOP obstructing up the wazoo, in the political freedom we have in this country. There’s a lot of abuses— like the debtors prison stuff— but compared to an actual authoritarian country we are stellar. It’s silly to compare us to an authoritarian country, of course, because our standard is much higher.