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Comment by michaelcampbell | Hacker News Reader

What, no "sheeple"?

You're making a joke, but I find it strange that people in the US aren't more skeptical of the government, especially the military and militarized police forces. To think the US is somehow unable to become a totalitarian state is naive. In Germany people didn't think it was going to happen either, many Germans didn't believe the atrocities were even happening and some remain in denial about them today.

Part of the issue here is that the military establishment and its peripheral industries in the US are so enormous, that most people who aren’t in the military are close to someone who is, or who does business with it. We’re all already in the Army, basically.

If you take nazi Germany as an example you should be very worried about armed militias , not the official military.

> I find it strange that people in the US aren't more skeptical of the government....military and militarized police forces. To think the US is somehow unable to become a totalitarian state is naive.

2nd amendment supporters and small government libertarians are both examples of groups who are suspicious of large governments.

> To think the US is somehow unable to become a totalitarian state is naive.

As is thinking that "it is unlikely" is somehow the same as "unable". There's broad-brush painting going on here, but I don't think it's necessarily only where you think it is.

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