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In reply to the discussion: I still can't get over the fact that Trump literally tried to overturn the election after he lost [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)27. The thing that holds this whole edifice together.
The thing that holds this whole edifice together is that people believe they are free and have agency even though they are a lot less free and have a lot less agency than they believe they have. Remove that illusion and things go sideways quickly.
On a more mundane level folks that work at companies like google, Intel, and Microsoft aren't going to hang around in a nation where Jethro and Billy Bob are calling the shots.
A hillbilly dictatorship would make Canada great.
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I still can't get over the fact that Trump literally tried to overturn the election after he lost [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2021
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It was such a wildly incredible plot that even after it happened nobody can believe it
Walleye
Jan 2021
#1
It's almost as surpising that major segments of "the business community" went along
Tom Rinaldo
Jan 2021
#10
I can't get over the fact that so many elected officials were willing to help him.
Arkansas Granny
Jan 2021
#13
I obviously don't have any answers and not saying there are any easy answers to be sure
Proud Liberal Dem
Jan 2021
#29
I find comfort in my adult children and their children who are being raised in a righteous
CTyankee
Jan 2021
#31
He should be slapped in irons, arrested and thrown in Leavenworth for his trial for treason
Baclava
Jan 2021
#16
He always said there would not be a transition. There would be a continuation...
Kahuna
Jan 2021
#24
Yeah, they just realized Trumpism is bad for business, not got any more virtuous...
CTyankee
Jan 2021
#30