You’d think a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players, would have some mechanism that would prevent itself from throwing down it’s key ideology.

Is it really that the president is all that decides about the future of democracy itself? Is 53 out of 100 senate seats really enough to make country fall into authoritarian regime? Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?

I’d never think that, of all places, American democracy would be the most volatile.

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      16 hours ago

      This x1000.

      Few things frustrate more than a fellow leftist who still refuses to arm themselves in today’s climate. I truly believe that the world needs fewer guns, but read the room for fuck’s sake. There are far too many people in the US that want our kind dead, simply because we exist. All they need is for their God Emperor to say the word.