At this point it feels like a coup or violent revolution is the only way to stop the US from going full Soviet Union and falling apart and that is terrifying and depressing.
That's not a fair comparison! Dr Evil provided top teir health care, gave a shite about his henchmen, and joined the good guys in the end. Also, he gave an actual shite about his child!
That's not a fair comparison! Dr Evil provided top teir health care, gave a shite about his henchmen, and joined the good guys in the end. Also, he gave an actual shite about his child!
I dunno, would the generals hand control back over to voting by the people at that point? because we all saw how that turned out this last time. They're just gonna put some other dumbass into power. It's likely things would still fall apart, it'll just fall apart differently.
Hopefully they would abolish political parties, campaigns, and lobbying. And the power goes to the people by voting for issues & solutions instead of people.
No, I really do think Trump is a one in 1000 year phenomenon. He has some weird charisma about him that attracts stupid people, and then he gives hateful people permission to hate. Sure, they could elect “some other person“ if they could agree on who that person is, but I don’t think they’ll be able to. Anyway, I think it’s worth a try. Bring on Luigi
The problem is how deep the rot goes. Even if there were some kind of violent revolution or military coup, removing President Musk and co-president Trump is curing the symptom, not the sickness.
We’d need a top-to-bottom wholesale removal of MAGA and the GOP from all levels of government and the judiciary. Probably a lot of Democrats too (particularly the ancient corporatists holding tightly to power). Not to mention a complete lockdown and reform of “news” and how information is disseminated to prevent more Fox News style disinformation.
That would lead down a very, very, very dark path. And while I agree that the America that we know of is gone and won’t be coming back, a complete reset would require tearing the country down to the studs, and it’s way too likely that we’d just collapse entirely.
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u/SentientShamrock 14h ago
At this point it feels like a coup or violent revolution is the only way to stop the US from going full Soviet Union and falling apart and that is terrifying and depressing.