Say that again in a court of law, asshole. I dare you.

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    The French way isn’t a quick fix either, in France it just put an authoritarian in power who created fertile grounds for a coup by Napoleon. It took them a hundred years since the revolution until the republic stabilized and had achieved peace.

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      Yeah, I know. I’m gravely concerned that we may be in for 100 years of shit here. I think America is/can be a great country, but if we are going to be a fascist hellhole for the next 100+ years, I’d like to encourage my kids to GTFO. They don’t need to spend their lives under tyranny. Guess I’ll know by the end of the term, at least.

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        I’m only in for 40 more years of shit at best. My kid is fucked though, but if we keep raising him right maybe he can be a part of the solution, or at least live to see it.

        Also killing Trump wouldn’t speed run much beyond a conservative marshal law wet dream. The couchfucker in chief would waste no time declaring is a terrorist act because “who would harm our dear leader but a terrorist?”

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      Violent rebellion rarely results in a government that those rebelling wished for, unless those rebelling wish for authoritarian government. Egalitarian governance is often born from long-term persistence to addressing the needs of the population and a general rejection of policies from the wealthy.

      That being said, a population under an authoritarian regime often need to use violence to (attempt to) trigger the shift into a more egalitarian government. In France’s case it worked (for a while), but took several attempts to get there.

      Creating lasting policy which truly works for the population requires that the population is healthy, fed, housed, and educated - if any of these are missed, then there is a significant risk of a right-wing shift.