The half-life of dictatorships

Authoritarian regimes are inherently unstable, as only fear and/or hatred keeps them together, and someone always wants to knock the leader off his perch and assume command. That's why the RepubliQ are disintegrating. Turns out that race hatred and screaming WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE aren't really voter attractants, except for the handful of foaming-at-the-mouth clown goobers represented by the Idiot Caucus, led by congressperv Matt Gaetz.

So now the RepubliQ have deposed their leader, but lack anyone whom enough of them support to be able to replace him. This will consume weeks of their attention, leaving them very little time to resume their task of fucking up the country by refusing to pay its bills.

Remember, kids, when you ask your grandpa, "Which party did you vote for?" and he snaps. "None of your business!," that means he voted RepubliQ.

Let's hear from the Shortbus Trio about their heroes in Washington! (I won't read their posts, but I like to see that they're upset.)

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Define Authoritarianism for us, will ya? It's historical major defining components, etc. Then deny that the current administration and it's accompanying bureucracy  aren't practicing multiple applications of it.

You just can't / won't get off the race hatred bandwagon, as you routinely charge all conservatives with race hatred / oppression.  You've fully embraced the current ' white supremacist' degree of actual influence / happenstance and overall narrative. You claim to be interested in factual history ; go back and recount D mediated black oppression / hatred by a proportion of their earlier party members and leaders. Which major party actually supported the abolitionist movement; think Lincoln? Were the Southern Democrats behind all the black prejudice during the Reconstruction Era? What did Woodrow Wilson do re: black oppression?.What was the primary political affiliation of the founding members of the KKK? Was FDR and his New Deal legislation discriminatory against blacks from an accurate overall analysis? Then look at Biden's own history..his voting on relative legislation...and penchant in his early career for supporting true white supremacist actions and affiliations with segregationist leaders ; think anti-busing as you meander through those Biden facts. And before you bring it up, I'm aware all these examples and others emanate from different time eras..politically and actually. I get that part. But if you want to interject party facts and charge all conservatives with current / historical antiblackism, you're somewhat forced to  accept some facts from your own party's past.

You want to discuss alternate current issue conditions rather than historical applications, both parties and their so-called leaders are chaotic and largely interested in power retention and camera ops. That's just the truth, imo. The system and it's leaders on both sides are infused with self-interest and intent on reelection; there are corrupt members on both sides, too. Some of them are just better at not being caught with their hands in assorted cookie jars. In short, they're all human ( well..most of em; some of em are just blatant reptiles).

Charles, you strike me as an intelligent person, so I'm kind of amazed that you use the flaccid tactic of putting words in my mouth. When did I say that the present RepubliQ race hatred mantra/agenda/strategy is anything but current? Of COURSE, the white supremacy flag has been waved by various parties throughout American history, including the Democrats. What of it, insofar as the present party alignments are concerned?

I don't really care about what "my" party did in the past (and I don't consider them to be owned by me). I can't control that. No one can. I don't really care about what "your" party did, either. I care about the present situation. And as my personal agency in affecting that situation is about 1/160,000,000, I'm thrilled about the RepubliQ's well-advanced self-destruction.

I don't buy your moral equivalence argument. Obviously they're all immersed in self-interest, on both sides, but only the RepubliQ have done things that are simply stone-cold evil. Only they have stripped away, or tried to strip away, fundamental American and human rights. And yes, I'm referring to recent events only.

If you want to argue against anything, argue against that. Do you have a scripted excuse for your gang's attacks on civil rights? I wouldn't have had one for the Democrats when they did the same thing decades ago. But then, I wouldn't have been a Democrat back then.