That’s not the only reason Americans are silent.
They know democrats are thugs. Intimidation is the whole idea.
Democrats rule by fear at all levels. I’ve seen them locally threaten senior citizens with criminal charges for opposing some commercial development the dems want.
When another resident considered running against them, a state senator visited their spouse at their public school job to warn them of the consequences.
You can say all you want how everyone should turn them in, but people know they will destroy your lives.
I’ve come to the conclusion the average Democrat knows it’s a Thug party and loves it.
They don’t just tolerate arresting their enemies, they insist on it.
Now it's time to interrupt this comment with a commercial break for some extremely pertinent Solzhenitsyn: "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
So yeah, as Americans continue "paling with terror" the feces-flecked leftist juggernaut will roll on and on and on until it halts at the execution pits.