I’m a pacifist, but if things keep escalating this way, I think there’s no chance of avoiding some kind of civil war (or world war 3, but hopefully not that).

I mean, how much more will the people take before they start dragging the ultra-rich from their houses, or turning on each other in senseless violence? How long before guillotines come back to the fore?

I hope sanity prevails before that, or that Donald Trump would have either a) an epiphany or b) a medical emergency that requires him to step down.

No one under him is really any better, but one would have to assume that with the Orange Fuhrer, the cult of personality would break down. I can’t see the masses following Vance or Noem or Hegseth the way they follow Trump.

They don’t have the mystique; whatever bizarre aura keeps people from imposing any kind of consequence on him, something that would have ended all of this right then and there if they had to courage do it when when it was still slumlording in the Seventies and Eighties, or financial corruption, or making fun of a disabled person, or any of the other smaller crimes he was allowed to get away with under the ruse of decorum and impartiality, that made him feel invincible, to himself and his followers, and led us to this.

Consequences, people. Early, often, proportionate enough to be a deterrent without shooting everyone who steals a paperclip.

Think about it.

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