The worst part of this… his cult loves it and will eagerly vote for him.
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The amount of people I have recently heard stating that they think that a dictator would be a good idea, makes me worried about the general education level of the populace.
I might be missing some info, but dictatorships aren't good for anyone. And before you say thay its good for the dictator and their sycophants, they are constantly on guard for revolutions.
The amount of people I have recently heard stating that they think that a dictator would be a good idea, makes me worried about the general education level of the populace.
This is because these people believe that somehow, they will be on what they consider the "right" side of the oppression. Surely, the leopard won't eat their face and all that......
Yeah there is only one person on the "right" side of oppression. Everyone else is disposable
The numbers out this week on the percentage of the US population that thinks the Holocaust is a myth or they just don't know if it is real, is troubling and could be partially related to these people that need to touch the stove to see if the warnings about the stove being hot is for real. I imagine actual dictators aren't something they think are a concern...
An enlightened despot is the best form of governance, but it has issues:
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Finding a dictator in the first place who's morally good and wants to help people.
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There's no guarantee that subsequent leaders will be even close to them.
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Everything else about a dictatorship.
The arguments and roadblocks we run into in Congress are the cost of not having a single person with absolute power. And I'm fine with that.
If you look through history, you'll find leaders who seemed to care about their people, but their changes didn't last. Catherine the Great is the example I remember from world history, and we're well aware of how Russia's done.
An enlightened despot is the best form of governance
Aaanndd thats laughable.
It's completely unrealistic. You'd need a paragon to have absolute control and act morally correct. There isn't any red tape to gum things up this way, nor any conservatives to stop it.
How in the fuck did we go from socialism bad, dictator good?
I don’t know, but at least now when someone asks about 1930’s Germany, we see why. 🤦🏻♂️
Hey wait a minute... I'm starting to think this Donald Trump guy might be an amoral fascist autocrat.
Not to distract from the topic, but I hate how he always talks about himself in the third person now.
now? Paul Merton on HIGNFY was mocking it at least as far back as 2016
Is it not a recent thing? I don't remember him doing it in 2020. He does it constantly now.
Perhaps it's a new and dubious legal strategy?
"I'm not Trump, why would I refer to myself in the third person? That Trump guy you want is over there..."
He’s gonna pull an Alex Jones and say it was all his character Trump.
Didn't work for Jones, not going to work for Trump.
Trump loves dictators a lot. He wants to be one as well.