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Ferrets are Cool

(22,503 posts) Mon Oct 20, 2025, 07:12 AM Oct 20

If the past is an indicator of the future, we are in deep shit. 4 possible authoritarian outcomes (vid)

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If the past is an indicator of the future, we are in deep shit. 4 possible authoritarian outcomes (vid) (Original Post) Ferrets are Cool Oct 20 OP

Thank you bcbink Oct 20 #1

balkanization is most likely rampartd Oct 20 #2

Likely true Picaro Oct 20 #3

None of the authoritarian leaders lasted...period. This one won't either PortTack Oct 20 #4

This.... RT Atlanta Oct 20 #7

Yeah, we're fucked. durablend Oct 20 #5

We need to do scenario #4, but we would still face scenario #3 difficulties from the MAGA dead-enders. Efilroft Sul Oct 20 #6

bcbink

(117 posts)

1. Thank you

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 07:32 AM

Oct 20

I learn so much here at DU

rampartd

(3,548 posts)

2. balkanization is most likely

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 07:36 AM

Oct 20

but no. 21st century "normal" is class centered authoritarianism waiting for a strong man. intolerable.

Picaro

(2,320 posts)

3. Likely true

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 07:40 AM

Oct 20

very scary, but likely basically true.

PortTack

(35,810 posts)

4. None of the authoritarian leaders lasted...period. This one won't either

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 02:21 PM

Oct 20

RT Atlanta

(2,678 posts)

7. This....

Reply to PortTack (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 06:11 PM

Oct 20

and it should scare the hell out of donnie and every effin one of his supporters and 'henchmen' like stephen miller to know - as history teaches us - that their house of cards always crashes and burns

durablend

(8,875 posts)

5. Yeah, we're fucked.

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 05:55 PM

Oct 20

Efilroft Sul

(4,287 posts)

6. We need to do scenario #4, but we would still face scenario #3 difficulties from the MAGA dead-enders.

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 06:08 PM

Oct 20

Territorial integrity of the nation, and even of the states, is not a given if the fascists aren't put down.

We're through the looking glass, and there's no going back.

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