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We'll be fine. It didn't take Germany & Japan that long after they started WWII


Who's going to conquer the United States and restore rule of law and representative government by force?


By default we'll have a change of president in 2-3 years. Like Karl Popper said, the primary strength of democracy is the ability to remove bad leaders with minimal violence.


I hope so. J6 was effectively a practice run. The midterms will be a key predictor, as there's a realistic forecast that there will be a "national emergency" or some other mechanism to fuck with voting.

This would be paranoid ramblings more than 10 years ago but today is a legitimate concern.




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