I’ve maintained this for a while now: as fucked up and as much of a piece of shit as Trump is, he’s very good at making readily apparent just how screwed up the entire system in the US is across the board and showing even the dumbest among us just how badly we need to change things. Yes his rabid moron followers think the status quo is a good thing because reasons, but the average layman is finally thinking about our country in a new light.
Triumph@fedia.io 1 week ago
Every system depends on powerful people respecting its authority and the credible threat of the masses taking things into their own hands.
What we see now is the failure of the respect clause. It's just a matter of when the credible threat clause kicks in.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I’ve always heard it as the social contrct, but yeah, it’s getting quite close to becoming void. Probably why this admin is ramping up domestic military operations and moving their leadership onto military bases.