Civilized General Discussion Board: Very dangerous time right now. this quote (inside post) lays it out perfectly!

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Very dangerous time right now. this quote (inside post) lays it out perfectly!

Posted by Sia

on October 18, 2025, 9:57 pm, in reply to "Letters from an American October 16, 2025 Heather Cox Richardson Oct 17, 2025"

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"Today, Steady State, a group made up of more than 340 former U.S. intelligence officers from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the State Department, and other intelligence agencies, released a report assessing the state of American democracy. Applying the tools of their craft to the U.S., they assess that the nation is “on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.”