"...we may one day experience American authoritarianism."

What was the Vietnam War, the  escalation of the Vietnam War with a fake military incident, the draft of 18 year old kids into the military, police riots, CIA subversion of the peace movement, the police occupation of black ghettos, FBI  subversion of the civil rights movement, FBI infiltration of the Black Panthers, the Kent State shooting of protesters, the secret wars in Cambodia and Laos, the killing of some three million in Southeast Asia...?
     
                         Was all that democracy in action?