I know he won't do it, but I so wish Biden would go full dictator before Trump does

[RidinWithHarris]

Use his SCOTUS-granted king-like powers and just locked up Trump, the conservative Justices, a good portion of the Republican House and Senate, Elon Musk, etc., etc.

If we're going to live under a dictatorship, I'd prefer a more benevolent one.

It just isn't in Biden's nature to go that far, however. 😢

[tritsofme]

1. Ugh...more dictator-porn.

It’s not just the right Trump has poisoned.

[RidinWithHarris]

3. How is this "dictator porn"?

First, I know it's not going to happen.

Second, there's no work-with-in-the-system solution for the crisis we're in.

"GOTV" isn't going to mean a damned thing in four years.

Even if somehow elections still work four years from now, the damage over the next four year under Trump is incalculable. Maybe the country as a whole can eventually recover, but many individual lives will be irreversibly destroyed.

I'm merely wishing for the lesser of two evils.

[LizBeth]

2. That is what my law abiding practice reasoned son said .

And he is well educated and lawyer. He is so by the books.

[SCantiGOP]

4. I'm actually ashamed to see this post on DU

I really think we are better than advocating an overthrow of our Constitution and government, but some people here are trying to dissuade me of that nation.

[RidinWithHarris]

6. The Constitutional order has already been overthrown. The people themselves stupidly did it.

We will have a dictator no matter what. I feel no shame at all in wishing for the lesser of two evils. We will not good-example our way out of this mess. I do not personally want to suffer greatly due to the stupidity, hate, and ignorance of others, even a majority of others.

And while, as an individual, it might be fine to be as honorable as you can in defeat, there are too many people who will suffer irreparable harm under Trump, including lives of harassment and hiding, torture, imprisonment, and even death (from loss of health care to cops turned into unaccountable thugs) for there to be any nobility in letting all that harm play out while feeling smugly honorable about taking some supposed "high road".

[Silent Type]

5. Don't think that will help turn things around. But I get the sentiment.