Are there betting markets that capture how much longer the American form of government is supposed to last? I'm taking the under
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Replying to @PatrickIber
Serious question: how will we be able to tell? I'm not sure it's lasted this long.
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That is indeed a good question, but I think there might be something so dramatic that we would really know
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I have been thinking a lot recently (mostly in ignorance) about the 1976 Argentine coup--a right wing coup against a right govt
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And then there was Fujimori's coup against himself in Peru
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I am hopeful (an unusual feeling for me) that the US military is too constitutionalist for that to happen.
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I think the threat to American electoral democracy comes from militarized police and intelligence, ironically not real military
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This is worth pondering: http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/1992/1992%20dunlap.pdf …
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Replying to @HeerJeet @PatrickIber
Printed for some cheerful weekend reading.
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