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    That’s the only thing that will save the US. Even then, I think there will need to be another American revolution of some sort what that means in the modern world I don’t know.

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      If you think Little t dying is going to make everyone sane again, you’re gonna have a bad time.

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        Yes, unfortunately Trump is just a more recent symptom of a deeper systemic problem. When Trump is gone, there will be another authoritarian, potentially a more competent one, that will slide into his spot.

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          More competent at governance, surely, but able to cattle-drive the fuckwits en masse? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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          I honestly would prefer Trump to helm the Confederate’s side of a 2nd American Civil War. He is the avatar of stupidity, infighting, and unchained greed: these are great for making a society fall apart, and I would like conservative society to crumble into dust.

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        Not going to make anyone sane but it will be the beginning of the end of the cult. Which I also think is not enough, hence the revolution comment

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          I look at it differently. That cult has been growing for decades, and has been choosing more and more unhinged people to deify year by year.

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            Growing in online (and in ‘headspace’) presence. In the actual meatspace world it’s mostly 2016 with stupid flags. Current fascist regime notwithstanding.

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              The Republicans trotted out “family values” in the late 80s as a thinly veiled denigration of anyone not in a “traditional” (Narrator: It’s not.) nuclear family.

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      It means an independent (read not-ad-supported) national news media that can ably use the words “lie”, “fascist”, and “insurrection”.

      Now you see why that won’t happen.