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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI now think many of the Republican Oligarchs would love the US to turn into something like Russia
I never would have seen that coming but what has happened in the past few months is pretty eye opening. Putin is frighteningly clever. That is why Russia is a much bigger threat to us than ISIS. It's really frightening and sooner or later the power the 1% is compiling is going to need to be broken up or our freedoms could evaporate rapidly. Hopefully the FBI can put some folks in jail and discourage what is starting to happen. Trump needs to be impeached to send a message regardless of it possibly hurting us in the midterms.
On Edit: France and Germany see the threat and are taking it as serious as a heart attack. They are sending Putin a message that Europe will stand up to his fucking ass alone if they need to! They are true heroes here.
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)mn9driver
(4,428 posts)An authoritarian kleptocracy cannot exist for long in a place where free and fair elections are held. The giant fortunes in this country are looking for ways to perpetuate themselves.
They are close to succeeding.
pdxflyboy
(678 posts)I believe the Drump administration's goal is to make this happen.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)here.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)The Kochs and their fellow billionaires have seized control of this country and are working with Putin and his gang of Russian oligarchs to permanently overturn our system of government and fuck the American hoi polloi who think they're entitled to live a good life b y right of citizenship.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)countries. Many citizens are just in the way. Many would like to eliminate them. So many Americans are so damn naive as to the worldview of what is going on, and the damn fools embrace the likes of Trump and the GOP.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)The world order is shifting on its axis as the age of Pax Americana stumbles to its end, led by a family of traitorous fools.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And if that means using the Russian mob as partners, why not? They already partner in all kinds of deals, like gas and oil corporations.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and I see no need whatever to pull our punches when we say it. They are in the process of speedily abandoning any pretense of believing in liberal democracy. We are in the worst crisis since 1861, and the odds, to be blunt, seem to be in their favor. "Politics as usual", looking towards 2018 or 2020...these aren't going to make any difference. What will make a difference...well, I'd rather not say explicitly. Only that I think it's highly unlikely. The sort of system the GOP wants lasted for 40 years in Spain, and 15 in Chile. It might last forever here in the US.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)demonstrated their agenda over and over again. Far too many Americans think today's GOP is Eisenhower's GOP.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)constitutional convention? Already have half the state's to change the constitution. Be ready to let rich religious republicans rule.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Idiocracy enabling the GOP to remake this country into a diastopic society.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)They are insane to upset the status quo.