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In reply to the discussion: How close is America to a dictatorship? [View all]Eyeball_Kid
(7,429 posts)The elections will be fixed, just like they're fixed in Russia. Democrats will NOT take back the Senate as we know it. They will not have an effective majority in the House as we know it. Why?
Because it will already be established that the Legislative Branch is inferior to the Executive Branch, and that the Executive Branch can overrule any decisions by Congress my mere decree. That's what's happening RIGHT NOW, AND IT WILL CONTINUE in even more pervasive ways.
Trumpy's dismissal of all Congressional inquiries is the beginning of the end. If the Senate acquits, they will have tacitly approved of Trumpy's codification of an autocratic dictatorship. And that will be the end of the Bill of Rights and free and fair elections. It won't happen in November, 2020. It will happen in January or February, just a few weeks away.
There were plenty of smart people, back in the early 1980s, who anticipated this moment in the nation's history. They anticipated that Reagan's approach to governing and his ability to persuade "conservatives" to concur with his "government IS the problem" meme would eventually lead to fascism.
Here we are. We are standing at the abyss. And an acquittal will take us over the edge.