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2022-01-04 Great White North
US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
[THEGUARDIAN] The US could be under a rightwing 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
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
 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."

The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Trump, he warned, "will have only two objectives, vindication and vengeance" of the lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
 was the result of electoral fraud.

A "scholar of violent mostly peaceful conflict" for more than four decades, Homer-Dixon said Canada must take heed of the "unfolding crisis".
Posted by Fred 2022-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Thomas Homer-Dixon

Hyphenated last name - the surest sign of a self-important douchebag.
Posted by Raj 2022-01-04 00:43||   2022-01-04 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 So? Canada could be under a dictator after the next election.
Posted by magpie 2022-01-04 00:54||   2022-01-04 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember when someone wrote 'Trump 2016' on a sidewalk in chalk and people had massive trauma over it?
This guy (and most of CNN and MSNBC) never moved on from that.
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-01-04 00:55||   2022-01-04 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 "... and then there's the downside..."
Posted by badanov 2022-01-04 00:58||   2022-01-04 00:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Could. Yeah, it *could* happen. And monkeys could fly out my butt. Both are equally probable.

It's kinda cute how they scare themselves with these fairy tales. Hey, let's all go out and discretely chalk "Trump 2024" on sidewalks and buildings everywhere. The sound of exploding heads will be glorious.

Posted by SteveS 2022-01-04 01:04||   2022-01-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

#6 The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

No need to wait until 2030, it's happening as we speak.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-04 01:05||   2022-01-04 01:05|| Front Page Top

#7 ...possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Al Gore, 2000
John Forbes Kerry, 2004
Hillary Clinton, 2016
Stacey Abrams, 2018

Shall I go on about Democrat efforts at projection?
Posted by Raj 2022-01-04 01:15||   2022-01-04 01:15|| Front Page Top

#8 The best fisking ever - https://monsterhunternation.com/2021/11/23/do-i-unfairly-paint-the-left-with-a-broad-brush/
Posted by newc 2022-01-04 02:55||   2022-01-04 02:55|| Front Page Top

#9 The left is vaguely following a modified nazi playbook of othering non-vaccinated and setting up camps, and yet the right is the danger. Got it, the guy is an idiot.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-01-04 10:35||   2022-01-04 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 More fact-free hysteria. As if we don't have enough of that already.
Posted by Tom 2022-01-04 11:21||   2022-01-04 11:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Canada is already under a dictatorship. A comic opera but still just as dangerous
Posted by Percy Flotle3938 2022-01-04 11:43||   2022-01-04 11:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Perhaps a consummation devoutly to be wished...?
The triumvirate of Big Tech Billionaires, Unions and Minority/Gay/Academics, and the MSM has given us a script-reading Presidential façade for a emergent Marxist dictatorship now.
They have overplayed their hand in the rush to loot and finish the Obama 3.0 cultural transformation by using the covid truncheon far too long.
People are awakening to an adversary government in all but name, but the corruption of the electoral system and the massive, deep infestation of the government itself has caused a gigantic dumpster fire across every principal agency. Add to it massive debt, inflation, and the importation of millions more third world indigents whose only wish is a handout and lifetime subsidy, and the toxic sludge is overwhelming.
Some days I actually get worried that the last best hope of mankind, America, will end before I do! Thank God I'm not a pessimist by nature...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-01-04 12:34||   2022-01-04 12:34|| Front Page Top

#13 We would be better off than we are now.
Posted by Chris 2022-01-04 13:17||   2022-01-04 13:17|| Front Page Top

#14 The Canadian assumes we have a fair election.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-01-04 14:52||   2022-01-04 14:52|| Front Page Top

#15 Well....the most compelling argument comes from corporate focus groups filtered by HR sexual deviants.

It makes a person wonder just how far off the mark the movie Don't Look Up really is.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-04 15:02||   2022-01-04 15:02|| Front Page Top

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