Half a century feels optimistic. I get the feeling you’ll be lucky to keep most of the Constitution intact. (Except for the 2nd amendment, but then probably only for a certain class of people.)
I genuinely fear for y’all, and for my country as your neighbor. I’m starting to feel suspiciously like an Austrian or Czech person in the 1930s.
Biggest similarity is Trump - a braindead far-right populist supported by conservative elites as a bludgeon against the left (or what passes for it in the US) who has created an independent cult of personality.
Biggest differences are a long history of democratic participation, the more left of the political parties not being split in two, and no mass political violence yet.
This could end up very badly if Trump wins - but we’re in a better position than Weimar Germany to pull through and ensure that Trump doesn’t win.
Half a century feels optimistic. I get the feeling you’ll be lucky to keep most of the Constitution intact. (Except for the 2nd amendment, but then probably only for a certain class of people.)
I genuinely fear for y’all, and for my country as your neighbor. I’m starting to feel suspiciously like an Austrian or Czech person in the 1930s.
Some of us here are scared, honestly. I am not a history buff but I can’t help wondering how similar we look to 1930s Germany.
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There are definite similarities and differences.
Biggest similarity is Trump - a braindead far-right populist supported by conservative elites as a bludgeon against the left (or what passes for it in the US) who has created an independent cult of personality.
Biggest differences are a long history of democratic participation, the more left of the political parties not being split in two, and no mass political violence yet.
This could end up very badly if Trump wins - but we’re in a better position than Weimar Germany to pull through and ensure that Trump doesn’t win.