Could it happen here? (In the USA)

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Sorry, imagining scenarios, and in detail, plus discussing them, is too much of an Asperger game for me. (Sinclair Lewis might very well have been on the spectrum, too, btw). The only interesting point of your scenario for me was that it reminded me that there are many gun owners in the US, and that a lot of people would be able to try to assassinate a politician, if he or she goes too far.

I prefer reading about or listening to real life people who did stand up or left a country because of a dictatorship or because they have been politically compromised in their countries. Georg Elser with his assassination attempt against Hitler, or the street battles between communists and the Hitler troops at the beginning might be of some interest for you.

Why do you feel the need to make up scenarios btw?

It stemmed from further reflections today on what happened here in the second half of the 1970s and first four years of the 1980s (as previously described) - which no-one (including me) prior to that thought was possible here. Not so much a "need" as a thread of thoughts on that theme and various scenarios that could follow.

How come New Zealand doesn't make it easier to immigrate there? What kind of bigoted hate filled country actually picks and chooses what people it allows to enter?

Drawing a long bow there? All countries have restrictions. New Zealand doesn't have any colour bar or religious test or anything like that. We are multicultural as a society and in terms of immigration.

in terms of foreign policy, trump will do as the moneymen behind the curtain tell him to do, just like with every other president. the truly scary thing is what he will do domestically, and the damage it will do to the lower classes and to our civil liberties in general, at least towards the lower classes. the upper classes will be even more above the law than they are now.

Given recent events, I think Trump's chance of winning are now going to enter drastic decline.

It's a concern. However if reputable polls (not the partisan type) show Trump way down just before the election, and then he mysteriously wins, surely acute scrutiny will have to take place into how that outcome came about?

It was predictable that Trump's last card would be ludicrous scaremongering. Now he claims that "Isis will take over America if Clinton wins".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ry-clinton

That's the most bizarre invented scenario yet, in this whole strange election discourse. If he really believes this, then he is probably showing paranoid features as well as the previously noted symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. All this and perversion too. And some people still want to vote for him, though not as many at present, it seems.

Trump and Putin form too much of a mutual admiration society for my tastes.

we need the world's prayers.