Post WW1 didn't erode rights, it actually increased them. Post WW2, the same.
Korea and Vietnam didn't leave behind any long term repression that I remember.
War on drugs and terror, ok.
Covid is a disease. We have vaccines, we'll have treatment. Just get vaccinated. We've had pandemics before, they always end and I can't remember any rights still taken away abusively after the Spanish Flu or SARS or HIV.
You are mistaking extending special rights to minority groups with citizens rights. We have been increasing minority rights as fast as possible with removing all the protections from dictatorships in the name of, I don't even know what.
>Post WW1 didn't erode rights, it actually increased them. Post
And on and on. There are libraries written about this, but no one cares because there has been a bi-partisan consensus that citizen's rights need to be curtailed.
Yes, it's hard to keep track of which act was used to curtail what freedoms.
The Sedition Act was used to silence opposition to conscription and gave us the immortal quote of "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
Which seems like an extremely level headed question about conscription in the US given that involuntary servitude should only be a punishment for a crime.
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