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delta-chan · 19 hours ago

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I have reached a zen state when it comes to the coming administration because I know that the majority did not vote for that motherfucker and when things get really bad a bunch of people that did--the low information ones who voted for him on looking "like you can sit down and have a beer with him" or what have you--are going to turn on him.

And taking a moment to really think about it, the US is too enormous to be ran effectively as an authoritarian state. There are far too many people, it's far too large, and making an enormous chunk of these people go hungry is calling for disaster. People can only take so much and when you anger and frustrate potentially hundreds of millions of people you are asking for their wrath to visit vengeance upon you. It doesn't matter if you control the military at that point--particularly if a large chunk of the military does not want anything to do with you and would rather not listen to the ridiculous and cruel orders you give them.

Rely on loyalists all you want. You are building an incredibly delicate thing that is fit to crumble under the weight of a space that's far too broad to manage at the level it needs to be for things to remain as you want them to. This place will collapse in upon itself as your administration cannibalizes one another. Whenever it will be you will fail--and you will get what you deserve, a vacuum left in your wake.

#Either that or everyone is too self-absorbed and stupid to carry out these plans effectively #We can only hope that they struggle their asses off trying to get anything done for a number of potentially hilarious reasons #That would be for the best--rather than a volatile collapse #Still--if they succeed it likely won't be for very long. They do not have a true majority when it comes to support #And when the material effects of things are apparent people will not be able to turn a blind eye #That's typically how these things go. The cycle of revolutions might actually begin to move here #Unfortunately a potential “glorious revolution” is bound to be horrific provided it takes place #If you want my honest opinion this seems like the setup for a civil war which would also throw things into severe disaray #States might attempt to succeed--potentially with varying degrees of success...?#This would depend on whether or not it was deemed worth keeping #An autonomous state incapable of threatening you is easier to deal with if they're too oppositional in this case I believe #As again I believe the US is too large to effectively control as an authoritarian state #Seriously--think about it. If a single state won't fall in line and keeps subverting your orders it will become a nagging issue #And you will begin spending more money on attempting to control it than it's worth--particularly costal states #If you want to keep the dough rolling in a manner in line with your goals it's best to cut the thing off and concentrate your power #in a manner that makes a core population easier to control #Bigger isn't better in this case. America is not the size of Europe and Russia's population is relatively small and concentrated #There is China of course--but the situation there is different for a whole host of reasons #It'd take the US a hell of a lot of time to reach that sort of state and in the meantime people would raise hell. It's too cosmopolitan #it's too non-homogenous with areas that are extremely varied in population #And these sorts of things rely on high homogeny to drive things forward #Perhaps I'm being too hopeful. But I simply cannot imagine this sort of thing working for long at all #It's illogical to me. Making such an enormous amount of very different people angry is completely banana shoes #As my great grandma used to say: they're talking cartoons

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