Marjorie “Don’t Look Up” Taylor Greene Banned from Twitter

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The US could be under a right-wing 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.”

Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: “By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us ... r-AASn1jm?

Should Canada build a wall along its southern border?

I have read an article on the same topic:

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

I read it, and as an Americanophile I found it alarming. Unfortunately, the time when I could soothe my disquiet by mumbling "Well, it could never really happen in the States, because of all those checks and balances" has now passed, given the events of the past two years.

And just to cheer myself up, I saw this in the same newspaper (The Guardian):

The UK is in danger of becoming a police state masquerading as a democracy

Trouble is, in the UK we don't have any checks and balances that a government with a large majority cannot simply move out of the way, if it is ruthless enough. Of course there was always the vague sense that leading politicians would, when push came to shove, put the country's long-term interest before their personal or party interest. But not any more, I am afraid.

Happy New Year ...

[Moksha]

But not any more, I am afraid.

Happy New Year ...

On the bright side, Presidents Putin and Xi have been successful with their strongman dictator for life efforts. However, neither of them would countenance the stupid clownishness of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[Gadianton]

It was actually a comet, not an asteroid.

I think you're right. Having that tail made it really visible, which would make it even more likely that the aforementioned would reject it as really happening.