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They tried to overturn the last election, and only by the grace of people that stood up when it mattered did that fail. If they seize power again, they will not
by duped 3y ago
They tried to overturn the last election, and only by the grace of people that stood up when it mattered did that fail. If they seize power again, they will not give it up peacefully. They've already purged all dissenters from within their own ranks, and if given the opportunity to fill out the government with their own ranks they will take it.
We shouldn't be rooting for political violence, which is what you're talking about.
- pierat 3y agoThe republicans have had this view for as long as I can remember. They have wanted to demolish the welfare state, and to turn this place into the Corporate States of America. And of course, they've added on extremist Christians and white nationalists to their ranks. And now, the R's pulled the curtain on their Lee Atwater-esque double-speak and now just say what they want. Sure, the big bugaboo right now is Trump, but he's just the current symptom. Listen to any of the current to republicans - it's either trumpean say-it-like-you-mean-it, or coded language that means the same thing. This country is already eating itself from the inside out, primarily because those types are already in lifelong positions, and otherwise controlling the bureaucracy. I'm expecting a civil war out of this. Except it won't be "North vs South", but "rural+suburb vs urban". And urban is the BIG coastal cities. We're still deciding on whether to plan for civil war, or to GTFO out of here. Either way, it'll probably happen within 10y, or less if Trump is elected.