Making being Republican illegal is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for the US to have international relations. No one can trust us if we don’t put these people in jail.
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Like the quickest route is probably “admit DC as 127 different states”, which ostensibly preserves our Constitution while practically guaranteeing Democratic victory for decades. But surely that ends in armed revolt?
Sidebar: it’d be hilarious if this plan came to pass, other Democrats were like “yes now let’s amend the Constitution to protect democracy for all time!”, and DC was like “sike you thought, $30 trillion to Metrorail”
What I don’t understand is, America is not the only world power in history to have democracy in the metropole. Britain and France were both substantially democratic at home while sustaining world empires and then international commitments. So why does America regularly throw these hissy fits?
It appears that presidential systems just are not stable enough to support that. There was an exception period for the US post WW2 but I think the institutional memory of that shared sacrifice and gov’t trust is gone and now we are back at the unstable baseline that presidential systems often have.
France is substantially Presidential at the foreign policy level, though.
I think the strain of isolationism is strong here because we spent a solid century effectively immune to European nonsense, and it’s embedded deep in our culture that the problems of other countries are not our concern.
Half the population straight up couldn’t vote for the first 150 years of America’s existence. It’s actually way easier to shut out whole swathes of the population for indefinite periods than the popular mythology would have you believe
Decapitate their leadership, destroy the basis of their political economy, and then actively and systematically suppress the formation and momentum of any replacements, and what you are left with is a demoralized and atomized demographic with no ability to mobilize itself towards any political ends
Conservatism in and of itself as an ideology must be destroyed. The only thing different from current republicans and never trumpers is that the never trumpers don’t like all of these things being implemented haphazardly
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I don’t even mean morally, I see no way that it could be done
I think the strain of isolationism is strong here because we spent a solid century effectively immune to European nonsense, and it’s embedded deep in our culture that the problems of other countries are not our concern.