The end of the great experiment

[kvogel]

There have been individuals who never liked the 'great experiment' of American democracy, and by extension the socio-economic process that evolved with it, originally left-overs of older European aristocracies, or newly minted aristo wannabes, ironically given the opportunity by the very processes that they hate so

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[dumpsterskunk]

Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here comes to mind. I would personally very much regret seeing anything like that coming to pass here on a large scale, mainly because when something like that happens the effects can never really be undone - look at the Balkans after centuries of Turkish misrule, the former Soviet Union and its satellites, and the southern slave states of the US. Resistance to local tyrannies is hard enough (IMHO this was the true intent behind the 2nd Amendment, not overthrowing the Goldurn Gummint as the gun klowns would have us think).

It has been interesting to see all the Orwellian double-talk about the election - for example, how the Electoral College has to be done away with because the "wrong" candidate won (would the critics be saying that if the other "wrong" candidate had won? Ah, well...).