> The relative chaos and transparency of America's system are what they are, but it isn't an autocracy at this point.

You can get locked up with a 2 million dollar bond for posting a facebook meme in the US, as demonstrated by a recent case[1]. I don't know what value the transparency holds here? It's certainly already crossed the Rubicon into overt authoritarianism in the past year.

[1] https://reason.com/2025/10/10/tennessee-man-arrested-gets-2-...