I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now
What is a coup? It’s literally a blow, a strike. Someone hitting your normal processes of government, trying to knock them over. The blow doesn’t have to succeed. It still wounds. In our case it was occupying Parliament without a majority. In yours it’s denying the President-Elect after an election. Whether it fails or not, deep structural damage is done. At the time, however, it just feels dumb.
Frankly, I expected more epaulets and tanks, but this is all you get. A bunch of dumbasses throwing chili powder. Someone at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, next to a dildo shop. What a ****ing stupid century. This is what our coups look like.
This year America had fascism on the ballot and nonwhite people mercifully said no. The fascists, however, are now saying **** ballots. And enough of the population is like **** yeah!
This is a major problem, and it won’t just go away on a technicality. I’m telling you, as someone that’s been there, you’ve already lost. It doesn’t matter if you get Trump out. He and the Republican Party are destroying trust in elections in general. This is catastrophic. You have no idea.
There’s a ticking bomb at the heart of your democracy now. Your government, the very idea of governance is fatally wounded. Chaos has been planted at its heart. I don’t know what this chaos will grow into, but I can promise you this. It won’t be good.
An.... interesting take I suppose. Comparing the US to Sri Lanka is a laughable false equivalence. The author seems to be a raging SJW weirdo. However the point that chaos has been planted at the heart of our Democratic process is true. We may be, frankly, better than Sri Lanka as far as our civic society goes and in regards to our civil traditions but we are still mortal human beings and so many people on the other side have been lead into a very, very dark place.
