the US was no shining beacon of democracy even before Trump

he didnt create that corrupt system, hes just taking advantage of it..

actually he and the other pedo billionaires did help to create the corrupt system who am I kidding?

I think the people of the UK should take a long, hard look at how the situation has evolved in the US and decide if they want to change their system to avoid having only two parties dominate the political climate.

There are currently 5 parties vying for position here, but your point is still generally true. Hopefully with the rise of smaller parties, we might start to see a move towards a more proportional system, but I'm not holding my breath.

Let’s talk about what this really means, though. Why would that happen?

Could it be anything like:

• Because power is a fickle structure by nature and therefore democracy is an unstable system?
• Because technology advanced so fast that it yields control to whomever sits at its forefront?
• Because society chose not to make theoretical laws for technology that had yet been invented?
• Because (e.g., Russian) state propaganda was allowed to become so powerful that it actually destabilized global democracy?
• Because we were naïvely assuming we had a stable democracy, when in fact we never really did — it just hadn’t been under enough stress to show its flaws?
• Because institutional capitalism with monarch style governance is an economic system that necessarily leads to authoritarianism?
• Because the libertarian value tolerance of debate is an ill founded ideology, and we actually need more intolerance (e.g., limitations on free speech)?
• Because social media is not respected by the masses as the enormous medium of control that it wound up being in actuality?
• …

What’s the next big realization here for mankind?

We need a second hippie revolution. And I don't mean the half-assed underground "comebacks" from the late 90s and 2010s, a real movement that actually influences policy.

I think they're just gonna kill him. Leaving him alive risks the chance of him sending whatever is left of MAGA after them. It also risks splitting their support base.

He’s an obese octogenarian. He’s already on borrowed time.

Yep, they will prop his rotting corpse up as long as they can, the plan is to having him be the wrecking ball, take all the blame, but by then the fixes are all in for the next one in line.

Not sure if they will foist vance on us, I don't think they believe he can be the front of a cult but by they maybe the power will be consolidated enough that they don't care since he's just a puppet.

Ah yes, President Couch Fucker

As far as I'm concerned, everyone who is a billionaire has to prove they had nothing to do with Epstein or pedophilia in general.

not a few on the left,

Nah, was a lot actually. I know a lot of people that were really upset after the election and after the first few months. Then it stopped being a problem. "You're overreacting." "Don't think about it." "We'll be fine next election."

No way he has 10 years in him. Motherfucker is mentally gone as is. Weekend at Bernie's.

He could die tomorrow. Pandora's Box is already open.

For the remainder of our lives we will see copycat politicians who strip more and more of our rights away when they gain power because they all watched and saw and know they can do what Trump did and more without suffering repercussions.

America put up a big sign letting them all know we are too weak to make them pay. They will take advantage. Why wouldn't they?

many countrys and similar groups brake down solely due to corruption of the systems that got the country to where it was in the first place. many think about building the country but forget to set things in places to preserve the country their after. anti corruption laws need to be overbearing to deal with this upcreep imo.

It's not a single person issue. The entire system is broken. Taking out one leader is not going to fix anything.