The United States has always been a dictatorship. Was chattel slavery democratic? Was legal apartheid? Does mass incarceration a.k.a. a police state (i.e. the largest prison population in the whole world, most number of people in the carceral system/under state supervision, ) a free country make?
It has always just been several banks and business cartels wearing a trench-coat. They only protect the rights of exploiters without question. You get a vote that matters next to nothing, and then the guy you vote for can do whatever they want for a few years without any consequences. They vote to destroy democracy abroad and murder as many people as possible with bombs. Then if you try to hold them accountable, someone with almost identical politics, but they say mean stuff out loud will win instead.
having baphomet on the patch would have gone so hard and would have been 10x cooler though