HeavyWeaponsGuy
Banned
All you need is for Americans to feel seriously threatened. Many people are more than willing to sacrifice their freedom for a sense of security.
Yes, and how do you sustain that forever without the use of ASBs, how does the United States have a situation resembling pre-Revolution France or Russia?
The Devil's in the details, the United States has never been involved in a war so ravaging that the mainland USA itself was exposed to the risk of famine or widespread devastation.
When you look at periods of authoritarianism/repression in the United States, the overwhelming precedent is that things go back to how they were after the crisis has passed. The USA is not a shaky democracy of the type that you found in 20th century Latin America: it is a venerable, established system in which a rule by military dictatorship is so difficult as to be effectively impossible.