I guess the history of democracy makes for a wider and deeper Rubicon for authoritarianism to have to cross before it can do what it wants? Like America has centuries of democracy, and even if that democracy is being eroded we still have an ingrained emotional attachment to it that would make overt authoritarianism a much harder sell than it was to Germany with its not even two decades of uneasy democracy. How much that would mean when it came time for the populace to actually do something about it that required more than getting off their fatasses once every four years to vote I don't know.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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