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orbat · 1625 days ago · link · · parent · post: Trump Poses ‘Danger for the Republic’ if Re-elected, John Bolton Charges
I'm going to be somewhat surprised if he doesn't get re-elected, although you can chalk some of that up to my pessimism about human nature. Authoritarians have been in charge for as long as we have recorded history; democracies are a statistical anomaly, and we're much too violent and nearsighted a species to really be able to make any of this work. If it's not Trump, it's going to be someone or something else. If anthropogenic climate change isn't "it", we have the capacity to fuck ourselves over in so many different ways that it's only a matter of time until the human population gets dramatically reduced