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How long it will take to americans to stop pretending America is still a democracy and admit it became a totalitarian state?
by akagusu 1y ago
How long it will take to americans to stop pretending America is still a democracy and admit it became a totalitarian state?
- Jtsummers 1y ago1.5 to 3.5 years. The next two federal elections, their legal outcome (voting results), and actual outcome (whether there is a proper transition of power) will matter significantly.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoMaybe sooner or later (increased variance), but I think the expectation is correct (2.5 yrs). The problem is Americans don't demonstrate nearly as assertively as the modern French, much less anything close to the French Revolution. The crap the US and the world sees on TV is done by a tiny subset of agitators who aren't party to organized, nonviolent, peaceful demonstrations that the establishment and the media love to paint with a brush as "criminals" and "insurrectionists". This is why people who protest about disagreements with the way things are need to carry only American flags because it does several things: - Encourages unity and solidarity - Reclaims the symbol to be neutral - Doesn't look like "foreign" "agitators" - Makes it harder for some thugs with badges to inflict wanton hurt on protestors who might be patriotic Americans and/or possibly on "their team"