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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
How do you reform an entire government without an attempted violent overthrow?
I've said in the past that Russia has more in common with the United States than people are willing to acknowledge. This upcoming inevitable confirmation of a rapist to the highest court in the land is not something that happens in functioning democracies. It happens in dictatorships disguised as democracies.
My humble proposal for the past 20 months or so has been widespread, peaceful civil disobedience as leverage to keep the worst impulses of Trump's America in check. The few who were willing to join us at first has now dwindled to approximately nobody.
So yeah, they either barely hold it together and we're a Russian-style failed democracy, or they push too far and the whole ****ing thing blows up.