T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
It's not an oligarchy that threatens freedom in the US today, it's an autocratic bureaucracy. When the President can, through bureaucrats control the nation's economic policies in detail you have statist capitalism going on. That is fascist down to its roots. When the President through executive orders and using bureaucrats can alter law, impose what amounts to a secret police state on citizens and political opposition, you are looking at a fascist autocracy.
When you have elections in which voting is done in secret lasting as much as a month, where political operatives get to collect and handle ballots, where anyone can vote regardless of actual requirements, where voters need not even identify themselves, you are looking at a fascist autocracy. That is, a self-perpetuating state ruled by an entrenched elite. Not quite a dictatorship, but damn close. All that autocracy needs to become completely self-perpetuating is to remove the last barriers and political opposition to it by doing things like vilifying the opposition and treating them as criminals. By taking control of elections and announcing the results without the confidence of the public because the entrenched powers know anyone who defies them will be erased from society.
All of that is happening today to one extent or another, and it's all Democrat run.
