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Neo-reactionary writer Curtis Yarvin, who actually advocates for single person rule, suggests that the way to get there is for a Trump-like candidate to simply make it a campaign promise. That if he's elected, he will declare a state of emergency, purge the government of opposition, nationalize...
I've seen predictions that the population could halve by 2100, with enormous economic upheaval during the transition period. The numbers of elderly requiring assistance in the next two decades dwarfs anything anyone else will have to deal with.
We sometimes assume that the structure of their...
Vlad instead?
As authoritarianism and/or illiberal democracy continues to gain in popularity, the strong-man supporters will actually have to derive a method for selecting their dictator. And for eventually removing him. Or maybe I just don't get it, that it's one of those things that just...
Seems like everyone wants simple solutions to complex problems. Governing a diverse population of 330 million is complicated.
So we can either try to make our democracy better, with all the complications and frustrations that entails, or we can just give up and call for our own Victor Orban to...
Maybe what we need is a very strong leader with virtually unfettered powers who will guide us back to the correct path, the one that stupid voters just can't see.
The post-Amendment 4 actions by the state legislature were some of the most egregious political acts I've ever seen. The cherry on the sundae was making it virtually impossible for newly empowered potential voters to being able to ascertain how to even follow the vindictive rules.
Russian demographics are really interesting. The number of combat aged men is already pretty low by historical metrics because they had a yuge dip in the birthrates right after the breakup of the Soviet Union in the nineties. So about every 25 years birth numbers crater again.
American democracy has a lot of flaws. The voting process generally isn't one of them.
Democracy means that sometimes your side loses elections. But if you don't like American democracy now, you're gonna like American non-democracy even less.
We can go two ways right now: we can make democracy...
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