Could it happen here? (In the USA)

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us amuuuricans are STOOOOOPIDLY fighting each other rather than the puppet-string pullers making us fight each other.

Perhaps a few people reading this linked article might be tempted to reframe Mattis as some kind of dangerous closet liberal with antifa sympathies. But only a few I hope. Listen... Can you hear warning bells ringing?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... on/612640/

Still time to roll back the emperor with no clothes, but not much time I think..

Many people are against, and tired of, all the bullcrap.

Fascism or a facsimile will never take hold here in the US.

^^^too late KK, the big elephant of fascism already has his trunk under the tent edge, lifting it up. you have a sizable minority of voters here who don't care for democracy which they now lump in with democrats, and only want a strong man to tell us all what to do and how to do it.

I support your supposition, primarily because as I see it the "Big Division" remains volatile in the USA, purposely created by the posturing lies and manipulations of Trump; Trump is gone from the seat of ultimate official power, but his kind of evil cannot simply be voted out, it persists. Democracy can change governments and leaders, but is relatively powerless against evil intentions and evil powermongers.

I think we always need to bear in mind that Trump's apparent "mentors" were Hitler and Mussolini: both formented extreme division in order to manipulate themselves into authoritarian power. They saw - and used - the creation of division as a first step, a point their acolyte Trump shamelessly imitated and exploited.

Even the death of Trump probably won't erase the threat; it will spark rabid conspiracy conjecture which will probably be exploited by other would-be dictators waiting in the wings.

The USA (and not ony the USA) seems to have a "cannot possibly fail" belief in democracy, as if democracies can never fail, but can only brought down by outright warfare of an extreme kind. Perhaps that belief may come to be the Achilles Heel in the future of the USA.

I hope that the USA will overcome the ongoing "plague" effects of Trumpism, though nothing in the present time gives me confidence in that outcome, especially given the social and political impacts of an impending economic megacrisis.

It is very sobering to reflect that had Pence colluded with Trump's crooked demand to declare the election invalid, civil war in the USA would have probably followed.

I suspect there may be a (dangerous) belief in USA today that because Trump's manipulations and lies failed then, future attempts to manipulate the system will also be doomed to failure. That seems to me an alarming naivety, if the USA did in fact come as close to civil breakdown as I believe it did..