Originally posted by: Nines
The totalitarianism state of 1918 government in Russia ( and for several years thereafter) under Stalin had no systematic checks and balances to prevent it. Likewise the governmental systems in place under Hitler didn't either. The US has those protections in place and to date ( after roughly 250 years) any totalitarian movements have failed here. Your version of historical events leaves out important contextual components..namely this ain't Russia or Germany in the early 20th century. You have little faith in our foundational tenets with these false comparisons and again you assign too much power to Trump. You forget that there's a considerable body of R's / conservatives that don't want to align with him on every stinkin issue. In the end, however, the people have spoken and you're just going to have to suck it up and subsist. Either that or move / secede from the union as you've indicated multiple times. I have bulky doubts regarding either option.
Conditions are just simply not comparable because of inherent governmental system differences between these instances you bring up and the US. It's just more frustated fear throwing on your part.
The Founding Fathers fucked up quite a bit; they made awful compromises to appease the slave states, and we're still feeling the negative effects of that; and they lived in a time when, to name just one huge difference, the idea of a Supreme Court justice living for three or four decades after being appointed was unthinkable. The result of all those miscalculations is that our system of checks and balances does not work when one party controls all branches of government, including the courts.
But here's the most important aspect that they didn't see coming. They didn't imagine that a political party would put itself wholly and thoroughly before their country; they never dreamed that a large group of legislators, from diverse walks of life and a widespread area, would clot together and form a voting monolith, as the MAGA Republicans have done. And yes, there are some apostates in the Republican gang--but really, how many? And you know what happens to them--just ask Liz Cheney, who DARED to question the divinity of the Orange Turd.
I know that you don't fathom that we are about to have a totalitarian government. Absolute majority rule in the hands of a party and a leader who lack ethics, morality, or fealty to the ideals of democracy IS TOTALITARIAN RULE. So the minority is still allowed to stand up in the hallowed chambers and protest (until Trump arrests them and they're dragged away, that is). So what? It's just going to be pro forma, with the House and Senate performing the same purely ceremonial functions as Stalin's Politburo or Hitler's Reichstag.
You place a great deal of faith in the disruptive power of the apostates and blasphemers--those beknighted Republican souls who have criticized/opposed/frowned at Trump in the past. Well, how long do you think they'll last, before a) Trump, who's making his enemies list and checking it twice, goes after them for being naughty and not nice to him, or b) they cravenly kowtow to save their careers and/or asses?
Or do you not remember how many Republiturds refused to certify the 2020 election--because Trump ordered them to? Or how many of them voted against Biden's immigration reform bill--because Trump ordered them to? In each case, they acted against their own and their country's self-interests--because their orange master told them to.
