• Mjpasta710@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    Sadly, yes.

    This is exactly what he promised to be, but nearly anyone that voted for this (maybe didn’t (most were warned and screamed ‘lies’) ) read the fine print, they keep swearing it’s going to be ok.

    There’s no way to back down from being a dictator on day one unless you abdicate the throne.

    It doesn’t seem to have happened willingly, and peacefully since the days of Rome in antiquity.

    We only have the history books to verify that even those were truly voluntary and not a forced move.

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      2 days ago

      he also updated, and said you voted for what i campaigned, on deal with it.

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      Well, technically… we have an example in modern Spain of an (almost) peaceful and willing transition without abdication:

      • Franco was a dictator
      • He appointed the King to follow in his steps
      • Right after Franco died, the King did a 180 and facilitated a democratic constitutional referendum
      • The majority, approved a democratic constitution, leaving the Executive power split in two: the King remains the leader of the military (in time of war, and mostly in name otherwise), while an elected President is the leader of the rest.

      Other than a failed coup attempt by a faction of the military who wanted to go back to the previous system, it was a reasonably peaceful transition from full dictatorship, to a “parliamentary monarchy”.

      It can be done, if people are willing.

      (PS: an abdication came much later, because of some not fully transparent money deals and tax evasion schemes, leaving his son as the new King)