I know you were not born when fascism started in Europe in the 1930's and 1940's, but your parents certainly told you stories about it, and you saw it at work in your youth and adolescence. Is the present time in Europe and in the USA getting more and more similar the beginning of fascism in Europe?

The trump administration wants to curtail freedom of expression in the US. The liberal newspapers (NYT, Washington Post, CNN) are under serious attack. Fake news are taking hold because a lot of people in the US CHOOSE to believe fake news if they are in favor of trump. Even some people like the Foxy poster on this Forum pretends to say that they no longer know what to believe. Silverboy often quotes false facts.

And I just read an article on the NYT "African Nations Increasingly Silence Internet to Stem Protests". This won't happen any time soon in the US because of the high tech/internet industry, but it might be happening in a lot of countries in the rest of the world. And once you lose freedom of expression, you lose freedom. Waiting for the next election is absolutely not an option because this situation is unlike any previous situation. This situation is not like the opposition party taking power (we were used to that); this situation is fascism taking power.

What do you foresee, Turnoi?

what should be done?