>So... What's up? Was that all a myth all along? Yes. As with so many other aspects of American mythology, the premise that the US is immune to tyranny was alw

>So... What's up? Was that all a myth all along? Yes. As with so many other aspects of American mythology, the premise that the US is immune to tyranny was always self-serving nonsense. The US was supposed to have numerous safeguards in place to ensure tyranny was impossible: 1) That all politicans would be elite gentry of upstanding moral character, thoroughly vetted by the self-interest of an educated populace. It turns out all of our politicans are venal sociopaths lacking in any moral character but only differing in the brazen scope of their corruption, and the voting public gets their news from TikTok and mostly just votes based on entertainment value. Womp womp. 2) That the government would be composed of three branches, each independent and equal in power, and each of which would keep the others in check, and the aggregation of power by any single branch would be impossible. It turns out party loyalty, ideology and graft transcends those barriers and renders them obsolete. Womp womp. 3) That if all else fails, America's "well-regulated militia" would rise up en masse and water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. This safeguard is so important, so existentially vital that any externalities due to gun violence - mass shootings and the like - are considered a cost well worth paying. Turns out the people with the guns voted for the tyrants. Womp womp. The system created by the founding fathers, assumed by many Americans to have been directly inspired by God and superior to all other forms of government, including all other forms of democracy, has critically failed at all levels to do the one thing is was supposed to do.