""This is a well understood and disturbing phenomenon-that people do adjust to the circumstances around them, including to greater political repression, and the loss of important freedoms, and the erosion of support for free and fair elections," says Michael Ross, a political science professor at UCLA. "People have a hard time living in a state of constant emergency. And for better or worse, humans have learned over the millennia to adjust to their social circumstances. That's clearly happening now, and very quickly.""
""We've watched masked men surround a PhD student on a Boston street and force her into an unmarked van and prison in response to an article she'd written in a student newspaper. We've watched the government use the military to police citizens in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. We've watched President Trump grab power from Congress as he enacted tariffs and dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development.""
Masked men abducted a PhD student on a Boston street, forced her into an unmarked van, and imprisoned her over a student newspaper article. The military was deployed to police citizens in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. President Trump enacted tariffs and dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development, consolidating powers away from Congress. He threatened opponents, accepted a $400 million gift jet from Qatar, and urged the Federal Communications Commission to revoke licenses of critical TV stations. Public and political responses have been slow as people increasingly adjust to heightened repression and loss of freedoms.
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