May I suggest that you give Vlad Vexler's youtube a listen? He describes this as a period of dlweaking democracy, but explains why all is not lost.
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According to history? Yes, but I guess there's a chance that the USA will beat the odds
Remember that time we as a country condoned owning people as property? No matter how bad shit gets in the next four years, there's no point of no return
Mass deportations sweeping up agricultural workers will need to be replaced when a national emergency is declared because crops can't be harvested. President declares the crops can be harvested by prison populations...what's the word for captives forced to labor for no pay indefinitely?
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Why do we call it united?
Last I checked the math books, 50 is Divided.
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Earth will not care. Life on earth may suffer, but Earth will not care.
Then I guess we shouldn't worry about Earth, because it'll be fine.
The save the earth movement isn't about earth, it's about humanity.
Nobody can predict the future. That being said, I am no longer optimistic.
Maybe. US history is full of crazy fucked up shit that the nation has made its way through thus far. This kind of situation hasn't really happened in the US before though, and historically these kinds of situations do not work out well. We are past the point of no return in that the status quo Washington Consensus or whatever you want to call the previous era is gone now, whatever is coming is something new and different and the US role and position in the world are never going back to what they were before. Really I would say this process started with Bush II but there is no reversing it now that Trump has won a convincing electoral victory. Whether we're past the point of no return for the US constitutional order isn't really clear yet but it's not looking good.
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