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But the Constitution! Some people are having trouble coming to terms with the fact that our systems have allowed this takeover to happen and the path to get out of this is narrowing rapidly. I'd be surprised if 3 years from now we even recognize the US as it once was.
Remember when Republicans carried those vest pocket editions of the Constitution? They were keeping it at the ready for the time they could wipe their asses with it.
They haven't already?
The real interesting question to me is how do you even really prevent something like this from happening? If every elected official decides the law doesn't matter who is left to enforce it on them? I feel like the only real options are the military stepping in when bad things are happening but that's a very slippery slope to normalize that or having powerful unions that can actually lead general strikes when these kinds of things happen. But atleast in the US unions have been beaten down so much that that isn't really an option so what is left really?
We are. There is an amendment for this. Its a funny one known as the second. But good luck with that, especially if the military is going along with it.
The first ammendment is the opposition to authoritarianism - not the second.
Both are. Dudes just came from a monarchy.
I think we have a couple of bad options
It's like a rock and a hard place...
By the end of 2025 the Us will be a christofacist theocracy if the non cult member don't start a resistance really soon and yes that mean violence and probably a civil war but no peaceful way will stop them now