• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    My thoughts and prayers have started ringing to the tune of "please gods may Trump have a heart attack / stroke at the worst possible time for the Republicans and spare the rest of the world another term of American foreign policy behaving as though it was conceived by racist, classist and eight kinds of phobic Elmer Fudd "

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      Another term? If he gets in again, he ain’t leaving until he’s dead. It’s glaringly obvious that he plans to become a dictator like his friends Putin and Kim.

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            That’s why I hope it happens during the election and the ensuing chaos means they can’t consolidate around a candidate. Dems would just reshuffle if Biden bit it mid campaign because so many leftists vote Democrat because it’s the lesser of two evils but the Republicans eat their own.

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                Well assassination of a candidate duration an election has some precedent. But it doesn’t happen often for good reason. If you assassinate a political figure you make them essentially a martyr for their campaign or ideals which stops people thinking rationally and doubling down on their emotional reaction to the assassinee’s party or general ideology. People put aside differences to “carry the torch”.

                Honestly killing Trump and pining it on leftist bogeymen would be a move I could see some Republicans doing. They have basically primed their base to accept any shlock they want to pass as news and if they go full authoritarian and get enough support on board to basically ignore democratic checks and balances…

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                    I mean, I am Canadian so dealing with the US as a foreign country with outsized influence is kind of nothing new to me. I think you’ll find the right wing just follows you wherever you go you just change the terms under which you deal with it. American media is a menace here and we essentially have to deal with US gun pollution and American style political discourse from our own citizens even though our Constitutional freedoms and government are completely different than the States.

                    I do feel like America’s problems are rooted deep in the outsized weight you give your founding fathers and the mythologized history of the two wars that played out on your soil. Breaking free from those fetters and actually updating your constitution to reflect the modern world and making your system more properly democratic using the advancements of political, structural and philosophical thought that’s advanced since the early foundation and adoption of democracy damn near 150 years ago sounds like an amazing idea, buit that require sussession to actually Kickstart that process.

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      If thoughts and prayers actually worked, Donald Trump’s head would have exploded like a scene from “Scanners” on one of his countless TV appearances.