It’s the Russian way. And the US is now a Russian vassal state.

Only one fifth of US-Americans can’t read! Lets make it at least a forth for the next “election”!

Also known as the Medwedew move. But I doubt Trump will manage one full term, let alone two.

E.A.Poe had similar concerns. He called the then hypothetical president “King Mob”. On the other hand, he was a fan of Andrew Jackson.

I mean, Camacho was also black, so definitely not a Republican president.

40 years and while that was definitely an important part of it, it was mainly half a million people protesting on the streets of every major city.

Totally with you.

Literally the 1984 playbook.

But they can also be ended with protests. See East Germany.

“Run”? I think the headline dropped an “i” somewhere.

Idiocracy would be an upgrade, it has a president who listened to people smarter than himself.

Well, we can always limit the damage because the damage only goes up if we don’t.

Also that he demands absolute loyality but gives none.

1933 if you’re refering to Hitler. He was already six years in power in 1939.

Oh yeah, that’s way worse! But it doesn’t make me very optimistic about Germany’s future either, even without the Trump tragedy.

Yeah, that’s also wild.

Our current government literally just collapsed today so… yeah.

Also social media sequestering people in cozy filter bubbles that distort reality.

Social media, or more precisely, algorithms designed to create ever growing engagement by feeding into confirmation bias and only showing you stuff you like, have destroyed the ability of critical thinking in a majority of people.

This doesn’t only apply to the right spectrum either, as evidenced by all the “hopium” articles here and on r/politics that were trying to construct a blue win or even a blue wave when all polls pointed to a Trump advantage. I had fallen into that trap myself. And everybody was also smugly making fun of the articles in r/conservative predicting the same thing for Trump. Well, turns out they were right.

Yeah, that’s the tragedy of it. Even in a country where it already happened once and millions of people died because of it, there are people eager for another run at it.

I’m German, and non-Germans always find it weird that most of us don’t have a very strong sense of national pride and are even very critical of our country, sometimes maybe even excessively so.

We have learned what uncritical, unreflected national pride leads to. What the price is to not confront the dark side that every society has.

And now, sadly, the US has to learn the same lesson the hard way too. I only hope the US and the rest of the world can come out of it with as little bloodshed as possible. But I fear for the worst.

“Remember, remember the 5th of november.” has a altogether new meaning now.