East Germany, back when it existed after the second world war, was one of the most Orwellian and oppressive police and surveillance states in the history of humanity. Basically every single citizen was under constant surveillance, and in constant danger of punishment from the authorities if they showed any sign of dissent or trouble.
The scary thing? The vast majority of the surveillance was not done by the authorities, but by other citizens. Indeed, the vast majority of reports to the authorities were just regular citizens snitching on their neighbors, family members, and so on. East Germany was able to maintain a totalitarian surveillance state for several decades with the help of its own citizens.
It appears that the United States is quickly heading down that same route:
It shouldn't even be necessary to say which kind of "extremism" they are referring to. A rather unilateral one.
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