So this is absolutely an attack on democracy, but I am struck by the sequencing, because it doesn't resemble - to me at least - the normal sequencing for an authoritarian takeover.
But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/
But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/
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This has never been anything more or less than a violent and criminal assault on the American people and government.
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Eiether way, this is exactly where liberal support comes from - K Street, Lawyers, and lobbyists. There's no democrat street organization.
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History comes round again
Democrats fucked us
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One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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Y'all's comprehensive inability to accept the possibility of criticism is not an asset. "The party cannot do wrong it can only be wronged"
What is the Democratic party even called? The DNC? Ive never seen a party card in my life
Although that may be their goal.
Hitler, Stalin and many other dictators have sought to increase their country's power. Trump is literally tearing apart US hegemony and empire. Almost like he's working for some...external power.
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“Don’t attribute malevolence to that which can be explained by incompetence.”
If there has to be an authoritarian takeover, I want it to be an incompetent one.
I'd (and I'm not a politician or lawyer) start w/
Citizen's United
SCOTUS executive power ruling.
Thoughts?
Here, they have jumped pretty directly to the end. 2/
Like, seriously, to understand this you need to understand that USAPATRIOT was the enabling act.
"they'll get angry and vote harder"
Yoda: That is why you fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS_gLFOrjMw
but somehow I never caused myself to believe my ideological opponents were figments of my imagination
And abusing tax law and breaking Biglaw so no one can challenge the Trump administration in court is a huge factor to making it happen.
The (lowercase L) liberal values of the electorate may not be synthetic but it's becoming obvious to everyone that the Democratic Party's liberal values are 100% synthetic. Voting for Libs, if it's even allowed or legit, is not going to fix this!
If you can't see the country clearly you have little hope of making it good.
Midterms are irrelevant if the plan is to ignore congress and Article I. Likewise in 2029 Trump can only stay in power through undemocratic and unconstitutional means.
The courts are mostly all that matters from this viewpoint.
Sadly they've missed the reality that humans are both a competitive and cooperative species, and that the cooperative elements have the upper hand long run.
Or, you know, why a queer person doesn't want to be discriminated against. Lmao
They think liberalism must work the same way.
And they don't have the cognitive capacity to imagine that other people are more complex than they are.
1. Trump - mob-king rule thru tariff wars, targeting personal enemies, TV spectacles, etc
2. Musk - techno-neoconservativism in slashing big gov and distrib wealth to the rich
3. Vought - Project 2025
The result is not random, but also is uncertain and not predictable in the details.
These aholes would not have made half as much progress If we had half-way decent leadership.
The Bannon camp and the Musk/Thiel/Yarvin camp.
Bannon absolutely understands bread and circuses. While the other crew is playing out a techno libertarian fever dream. Their ascendance explains the sequencing.
And (to a scary degree) they’re all just winging it, like a bunch of populist chaos monkeys hurling feces to see what sticks.
They can't have their slave cities if the federal government exists because the federal government is above them, essentially.
In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
I hope this helps recalibrate your thinking.