I'm a Comrade Doodle Dandy

Have you noticed that the citizens of the American "republic" are beginning to think and talk like the cowering, whispering, furtive-glancing "comrades" in the old USSR? Right down to the phony show trials they are required to nervously applaud?
They demand not to be told what their government is doing in their name. They sit still for the dismantling of the right to vote. Wars? They're always ready to back another one, on any flimsy excuse. 
Do they fear the SWAT team kicking in their door at dawn and handcuffing them for the terrorist crime of their wife having an unpaid student loan? The armed drone strikes? The swaggering state-sponsored executions of the innocent, the dark, the mentally challenged?
We now seem to live in a nation in which torture is legal, but telling the truth is a crime.