Bilbo - Why shouldn’t I keep it?

Moral of the story, never let your government grant itself emergency powers without a hard expiration date.

The Star Wars Prequels warned of it.

How do you stop somebody from granting themselves something when they are the very people in charge of granting or not granting things? Lol

it's almost like we don't have any choice at all and they're just going to do whatever the hell they want

Anyone able to watch the prequels and Clone Wars without drawing parallels between Palpatine and establishment politicians, especially Democrats, is either blind or willfully ignorant.