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Luckily US constitution says a president cannot serve more than 2 terms. He's going to try but I don't think the public will allow him. That said, it wouldn't

Luckily US constitution says a president cannot serve more than 2 terms. He's going to try but I don't think the public will allow him. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if he tried to start a world war in order to try to stay as president. It seems like he'll literally do anything to stay in power. Last time he tried to get a mob to kill the vice president and congress. What's he going to do in 3 years?

dragonwriter 1y ago
> Luckily US constitution says a president cannot serve more than 2 terms The US Constitution says a lot of things, but that doesn't mean that they have a lot of effect. > He's going to try but I don't think the public will allow him. I don't think mortality is going to let him, but, absent also losing an internal or external war, the death of the leader is not a reliable end to an authoritarian regime. One of the reasons for rapidly and aggressively moving to institutionalize control and dismantle opposing power centers is to reduce the dependency of the regime on the cult of personality around the leader.
jacquesm 1y ago
> Luckily US constitution says a president cannot serve more than 2 terms. He's going to try but I don't think the public will allow him. The constitution is no longer the pillar it used to be, and if the public didn't act so far I don't think they ever will. You'd have expected nationwide strikes by now a-la Poland 1982, the movement was called Solidarity for a reason. But in a nation full of individualists it is much harder to get something like that rolling. > That said, it wouldn't surprise me if he tried to start a world war in order to try to stay as president. It seems like he'll literally do anything to stay in power. Last time he tried to get a mob to kill the vice president and congress. What's he going to do in 3 years? This is the million dollar question. Some points of hope: he may not be around in three years, some voices are being heard that push back. But there may be a successor with similarly deranged ideas and the people that are getting a taste of real power around them may want to consolidate their position knowing full well that if they don't succeed now they most likely never will. US-Europe and US-Canada relationships will take decades to heal though, if they ever will, no matter what the outcome.
- aurareturn 1y ago
  The constitution is no longer the pillar it used to be, and if the public didn't act so far I don't think they ever will. If we ignore one rule of the constitution, you might as well throw the whole thing out. US would descend into chaos.
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    > If we ignore one rule of the constitution, you might as well throw the whole thing out Under the present regime, the government is ignoring a lot more than one rule of the Constitution.
  - jacquesm 1y ago
    > US would descend into chaos. Yes, before you know it there would be concentration camps and military in the streets. Oh, wait...
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dragonwriter 1y ago

> Luckily US constitution says a president cannot serve more than 2 terms The US Constitution says a lot of things, but that doesn't mean that they have a lot of effect. > He's going to try but I don't think the public will allow him. I don't think mortality is going to let him, but, absent also losing an internal or external war, the death of the leader is not a reliable end to an authoritarian regime. One of the reasons for rapidly and aggressively moving to institutionalize control and dismantle opposing power centers is to reduce the dependency of the regime on the cult of personality around the leader.

jacquesm 1y ago

> Luckily US constitution says a president cannot serve more than 2 terms. He's going to try but I don't think the public will allow him. The constitution is no longer the pillar it used to be, and if the public didn't act so far I don't think they ever will. You'd have expected nationwide strikes by now a-la Poland 1982, the movement was called Solidarity for a reason. But in a nation full of individualists it is much harder to get something like that rolling. > That said, it wouldn't surprise me if he tried to start a world war in order to try to stay as president. It seems like he'll literally do anything to stay in power. Last time he tried to get a mob to kill the vice president and congress. What's he going to do in 3 years? This is the million dollar question. Some points of hope: he may not be around in three years, some voices are being heard that push back. But there may be a successor with similarly deranged ideas and the people that are getting a taste of real power around them may want to consolidate their position knowing full well that if they don't succeed now they most likely never will. US-Europe and US-Canada relationships will take decades to heal though, if they ever will, no matter what the outcome.

aurareturn 1y ago
The constitution is no longer the pillar it used to be, and if the public didn't act so far I don't think they ever will. If we ignore one rule of the constitution, you might as well throw the whole thing out. US would descend into chaos.
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  > If we ignore one rule of the constitution, you might as well throw the whole thing out Under the present regime, the government is ignoring a lot more than one rule of the Constitution.
- jacquesm 1y ago
  > US would descend into chaos. Yes, before you know it there would be concentration camps and military in the streets. Oh, wait...
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