But RIGHT NOW Richard is screwing around with the nukes while Joffrey brags on Twitter about how much treason he's doing
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I ask you, what could be worse than what democracy has brought us?
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In graduate school, my beloved professor
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But... I just can't anymore. Democracy has led us to this. I don't have a better option but I can't see this working
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Perverting democracy has led to this, but, yes, I'm worried too.
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It's just... on one hand, you're completely right in that if gerrymandering didn't keep "the people" from being numerically represented >
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then we'd have a boring centrist leader or maybe even something better in the long run.
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But if "the people" can vote to suspend all the rules, and I feel like they kind of have, then we get a reality star with nukes
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I pointed out in another thread that Back to the Future II is set in 2017 and Biff is highly modeled on Trump at that time
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And it's a dark future where Biff has almost unlimited power - but they didn't even think to make him PRESIDENT
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"The Waldo Moment", the Black Mirror episode everyone compares to this, still has Waldo lose the election
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It then time skips to a dark future where Waldo is somehow ruler of the world but people treated this as a weird fantasy element
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There's a lot to say about that ep honestly and how ppl at the time slammed it for being bad science fiction
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