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That’s what we said last time, and we are still paying for it. We can’t rely on that to save democracy. Though neither can we trust democrats.
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Wishful thinking, it just means there will be no silver lining on the clouds
I've been saying this all along, except I've been calling it "Virtuosic Incompetence."
There's an old saying that it's better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, than outside your tent pissing in. HitlerPig is far too ignorant to have heard that saying, and he wouldn't understand if he did.
By replacing anyone with knowledge and experience, with those whose ONLY qualification is loyalty, he has given his opposition the gift of competence, while removing it entirely from his side. In addition, there are thousands of people still working for the various Federal agencies who are blisteringly angry at what's being done to them, their workplaces, and their patriotic mission, and they are perfect recruits for leaks and sabotage.
People have said that it will be impossible to take our country back when they control everything, including the military, but thier leadership are so poorly equipped mentally and experientially, that a small competent militia, with an experienced leader, could easily win through strategic means rather than brute force, which is all the MAGAMorons understand and value.
Intelligence will eventually win over sheer power, because one side understands both strategies, while the other only understands one, and has only disdain for intelligence.
They're Pakleds - stupid, easily manipulated, and easily whupped.
We already saw the Malice in his first term and it hasn't slowed down at all since then, and I think the author of this opinion is vastly underestimating how much damage an idiot in charge is.
My biggest concern is, of course, how they're going to mishandle disease control potentially putting billions of people at risk of death or permanent disability who otherwise would not be.
My secondary concern is that the loss of USA tipping the scales in favor of real democracies in EU, South Korea, Japan, etc that the other world powers will begin a war that, again, puts billions of people at risk.
My tertiary concern is that doing nothing about climate change will... wait for it... puts billions of people at risk.
I think we're already seeing that they're quite capable of doing severe damage to the USA and other countries. You don't have to be smart or skillful to be a wrecking ball. And, as another commenter says, the pandemics, wars and climate disasters they will bring have yet to really kick in.
Historically, incompetent authoritarians tend to resort to violence to retain power. (recent example: Maduro in Venezuela).
Historically they get fucked in the ass with rifles and their own dicks.
But first they fuck everyone else with those dicks and rifles
'After [current guy], our turn', while a nice sentiment to avoid giving up entirely, does not have enough historical evidence to support it as a strategy.
It won't.
Yay? We're saved
Even if they all stupided themselves to death today, it would take years to repair the damage. Some of the damage can't be repaired. And we'd still be behind where we could have been if we had had competent leadership to begin with. Or even just less bad leadership.
We should never forgive the Republicans. Every one of them should be a pariah.