The fine line between democracy and dictatorship

It's a fine line living in a democratic society, the line between listening and representing the masses and turning into a fascist society. I think you know where I am going with this but I am not going say it is one country alone but the whole of the western world is heading to take a giant leap into the darkened past. Russia I believe is leading the way closely followed by the a large chunk of the rest of us.

What made me think this was in the new today where it has documented that several states of the USA are applying to remove the right to protest. A fundemental right of every civilian in the west. If things aren't running how people believe they should, they have always had the right to protest, and speak out against them. To remove this rights is to remove our basic liberty and freedom and to become a non free society. So the out come of these court actions is crucial to us all, because if one court in one country rules in favour of this application it opens the flood gates for all courts in all countries to rule this way. Once we lose the right to protest, we lose other rights, like the right to petition, to question, to have a voice. Thus quietly allowing a democracy to become a dictatorship.

So this news that has convientantly shoved into the general whole noise of all the other horrors that are going on, becomes overlooked. In fact that is a very concious ploy to allow these laws to be past. Amid the fury of a fictional massacre, the ongoing travel ban of Muslims and so on, this is side note that is quietly slipping through and thus becoming the most missed opportunity.The British government is just as guilty, slipping laws through under the noise of Brexit, keeping the voting public distracted and blind to their deviousness.

I guess what I am trying to say is that to avoid being misled by our leaders, we need to pay attention to more than the big noise events. Protest, demos rate by all means but for all that is sacred, pay attention to the sie columns of news, the debates in government and get on your representatives case if you see something that you don't like. Remember a lot of pevious dictators were voted in by the masses in the belief they were the new hope, only to find they were less luke skywalker and more darth vader. Even Hitler was popular in the beginning, and Stalin was part of the allied resistance..

Il give you a few quick statistics, 20 days in power, 10 executive decisions, staff replaced if they dare to defy or question, falsified events, failure to disclose tax returns, or business interests. This is the list so far for someone leading a democracy, when in reality it's a worse start than any of the dictators of the 20th century. Now ask yourself are we really still in a democracy?