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The French way isn’t a quick fix either, in France it just put an authoritarian in power who created fertile grounds for a coup by Napoleon. It took them a hundred years since the revolution until the republic stabilized and had achieved peace.
Yeah, I know. I'm gravely concerned that we may be in for 100 years of shit here. I think America is/can be a great country, but if we are going to be a fascist hellhole for the next 100+ years, I'd like to encourage my kids to GTFO. They don't need to spend their lives under tyranny. Guess I'll know by the end of the term, at least.
I’m only in for 40 more years of shit at best. My kid is fucked though, but if we keep raising him right maybe he can be a part of the solution, or at least live to see it.
Also killing Trump wouldn’t speed run much beyond a conservative marshal law wet dream. The couchfucker in chief would waste no time declaring is a terrorist act because “who would harm our dear leader but a terrorist?”
Violent rebellion rarely results in a government that those rebelling wished for, unless those rebelling wish for authoritarian government. Egalitarian governance is often born from long-term persistence to addressing the needs of the population and a general rejection of policies from the wealthy.
That being said, a population under an authoritarian regime often need to use violence to (attempt to) trigger the shift into a more egalitarian government. In France's case it worked (for a while), but took several attempts to get there.
Creating lasting policy which truly works for the population requires that the population is healthy, fed, housed, and educated - if any of these are missed, then there is a significant risk of a right-wing shift.
The slow way, liberal incrementalism, is seemingly getting us authoritarianism not just in the US but in much of Europe as well. Not to mention the liberal incrementalists broadly seem to have stopped bothering to, you know, increment.