Opinion | A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Politics@beehaw.org – 86 points –
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Left news: A Trump dictatorship is inevitable

Right news: A Biden dictatorship is inevitable

Actual news: The media wants you to start a civil war with your fellow man to distract you from eating the rich.

you from eating the rich.

from rioting in the streets to stop the destruction of the environment

slight disagreement but overall excellent thesis.

Biden and Trump are both rich. No rich person wants a civil war, that would get most rich people killed.

No rich person actually has to fight in any war, that's the job of those dirty poors. And every gun/round sold is extra money to the (rich) people who made investments into the MIC and media propaganda machine.

The US is not nicely divided between North and South like it was in the 1860s. A civil war now would look more like The Troubles + mass shootings, than it would Gettysburg-esque battlefields. Political assassinations would be happening constantly. Mobs torching neighborhoods of their political opponents.

It would be very difficult to be insulated from that, short of fleeing the US (which I'm sure many rich people would).

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