Keep going back to the thought that given a choice between sacrificing conservatism or democracy, the GOP will sacrifice democracy. Demographics is against them. The electoral system, senate structure, all just buy time. The choice is inevitable. A question of when, not if.
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The highest likelihood outcome is still just a bumpy and frayed but otherwise non-crisis transition. Which people will jump to see as validation that the system just “works” and all thus agonizing was needless worry. Exactly the wrong conclusion to draw.
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When near misses increase in frequency gradually, fragility is increasing. The adjacent possible is turning into a dangerous abyss. Just because you walked a tightrope successfully doesn’t mean it’s the same as an ordinary path.
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Also don’t forget: near misses aren’t harmless. They just hurt people and things at the margins. If you’re one of the sanguine, secure ones, you won’t be hurt.
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Murder is impossible because it is illegal The United States cannot unravel or slide into autocracy because the constitution forbids it
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This is not 2000. The paradigms are very different, the majority of the US doesn't view either party as holding legitimacy any more. The dinosaur is in the process of tearing itself apart because it can NOT admit what it is...an Empire. A rudderless one atm, but still an empire.
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Ya agreed. I think we're well past Vista, waiting for the Balmers to step aside and a Satya to step up
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"We’re at Windows 95 stage of evolution, headed to Vista." is one of the scariest similes of the US political system I have ever heard.
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