US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns

[turbinetree]

Canadian political scientist warns in op ed of Trumpist threat to American democracy and possible effect on northern neighbor

The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the “collapse of American democracy”.

“We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine,” Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.

“In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/us-rightwing-dictatorship-2030-trump-canada

And our uppity-up society said it could not and will not happen here....

[sanatanadharma]

1. Certainly we'd see the 2nd A remedy to right-wing wet dreams

This is my question:
If suppose the US becomes a right-wing dictatorship that collapses American democracy.

Will 'they' actually do what so often we are told they will do?
They being the responsible gun owners who keep major armaments for 2nd amendment protection of the Constitution.

Will they and the the good-ole-boys-with-guns actually rise up against a non-constitutional right-wing government?
If not, they are lying now.

[turbinetree]

2. They the bad "guy's and woman will not defend the constitution, unless it is there version

and interpretation.....

[Septua]

4. I may be misunderstanding your question...

..but I thought the non-constitutional right-wing government is what they want. Expunge all the non-whites (and maybe Democrats), close the borders and ignore global warming.

[turbinetree]

5. That is what I am saying.....its there constitution of the day the last ten minutes

last ten seconds, what some traitor says on a podium, the same traitor that backs a right wing dictator in Hungary, the same bunch that is going to hold there CPAC meeting in the same Victor Orban country....that bunch....hell that might has well go into Russia....

[RussBLib]

3. US could be under extraterrestrial rule by 2030

Maybe one thing is a little more likely than the other.

[uponit7771]

7. Damn, there seems to be a faction on the left that think J6 could not be a singularity. They're ...

... historically wrong.

[BannonsLiver]

10. There also seems to be a faction on the left that is fetishizing the idea of civil war and coups.

Which is Equally weird and unhelpful.

[uponit7771]

12. If they were Historically Wrong it could be fetishizing, they're not ... we're damn near lock step

... into what happened with Spain Circa 1937 and a multitude of other democracies recently.

There are overwhelming facts behind the alarm dems are displaying towards J6 assholes

[uponit7771]

6. Anyone else study Germany's government pre Hitler? Seems we're damn near lock step when it

... comes to normalizing the extremism side of their government after Hitler took over.

[Act_of_Reparation]

8. There's a lot of overlap, for sure.

Right down to liberals thinking this will all just go away of its own accord and that any suggestion we take this threat seriously is just "doomsaying".

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[tenderfoot]

11. It's like history is totally repeating itself

and it's terrifying af.

[Septua]

14. I've learned enough from T.V. documentaries...

..to know Trump has a lot in common with Hitler. But I suppose all dictators and wannabe dictators have a lot in common.

It was obvious early on Trump was a bully. It was when he expressed admiration for Putin, Kim Jong-un and others that the dictatorial aspirations were obvious.

[UTUSN]

13. Was going to say 2030 was too far away, but it's only a cycle or two

[Septua]

15. If you haven't been keeping up...

Putin has issued some ultimatums to the USA and Europe, relative to the Ukraine situation and it's serious stuff.

The Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov [said], “This is not about us [Russia] giving some kind of ultimatum, there is none. The thing is that the seriousness of our warning should not be underestimated,”

That's either a promise or a bluff. I have to wonder what information Trump shared with Putin over 4 years, leading Putin to think he can make demands of the USA and NATO? Very Hitler-ish...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/17/russia-issues-list-demands-tensions-europe-ukraine-nato