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Excellent points! I have 2 more to add: 1. President Zelensky oversaw the banishment of 11 political parties, so it got me thinking who else the US has aligned itself with that was cool with banishing political parties, also the history itself of banning political parties. The only one I can think of is communist Russia who had done away with political parties decades before. Stalin had already starved millions of his own people, but that's another story. Communist China also banned political parties as well as others, and when it comes to banning political parties Adolf Hitler takes a back seat to nobody. He was instrumental in getting the Enabling Act passed which allowed arrest of anybody deemed against the state, and communists and labor union leaders were the first to arrive in the camps. "Critically, the Enabling Act allowed the Chancellor to bypass the system of checks and balances in the government and the laws created under it could explicitly violate individual rights prescribed in the Weimar Constitution." All of this was only possible because of a... 2. "declared" emergency. Otherwise how else do you suspend the law? When anybody declares an emergency that should be your first clue who your enemy is. Declaring an emergency is like the Power Sweep in football, it works, how can you not use it?

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