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How do we prevent another far-right kook from being elected president in the future? (lemmy.org)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/usa@lemmy.ml
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[–] 39 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Hang em all. Punish them. That's what we did wrong with the Confederate losers.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Who's going to do that exactly? They are your ruling class, and that makes them immune to their own laws.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Whoever has a brain, a gun and less than $1 million in the bank. Hell, even some uber-rich folks might join the cause.

    And besides, if anyone has a gun problem, it's America. Might as well make that bug into a feature. Y'know, wrong clock right twice or whatever.

    If the rulers end up getting shot and school shootings give way to senate, town hall and courtroom shootings, maybe a positive change would come. If nothing else, guns would get controlled which would mean less school shootings judging by the Brian Thompson case.

    And just to say - I'm not preaching political violence. What I am saying is that a bunch of dead adults is teeny tiny bit less terrible than a bunch of dead kids.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    What you're describing is a systemic collapse, and I think that is the most likely scenario in the long run. I was merely pointing out that there is no path to hold the oligarchs accountable within the framework of the current system.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    That's the thing, we didn't punish the confederates. Sure, we got the "government", but not the planter class that instigated the war in the first place. Then Lincoln got shot and Johnson, their butt boy, let them off the hook. They got to keep their land, and more importantly, their political power, all at the cost of enfranchising formerly enslaved people. Then they proceeded to morph their classical slavery into modern slavery.

    Every time an "elite" committed high treason in American history, they just get to walk, and all the working class people that get caught in the mayhem get fucked.

    It's happening even now. Maxwell is the only person imprisoned for the largest child sex trafficking coverup in world history.

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