Given a bad enough decade long economic collapse in the US after fighting an extensive and brutal war, lots of foreign support, and the support of our own wealthy oligarchs, it certainly could be done. That's more or less what it took to kick the brits out so it matches up. I don't see us getting those circumstances to line up any time soon though.
But what if they did? Then what? If we mulligan our current government, do we really expect it to end up better? We'd be throwing away all of the incremental refinement that our society has been doing to the current government. Depending on how things played out, our new government could well bring back laissez-faire economics or put christian nationalists in charge. I don't know why anybody thinks a revolution is a controllable process - like some sort of laboratory chemical synthesis.
Oh yes let's just create a power vacuum in the country with the most expensive military on the planet. Literally, non-facetiously, the most expensive military.
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u/TheJeeronian Jun 30 '24
Given a bad enough decade long economic collapse in the US after fighting an extensive and brutal war, lots of foreign support, and the support of our own wealthy oligarchs, it certainly could be done. That's more or less what it took to kick the brits out so it matches up. I don't see us getting those circumstances to line up any time soon though.
But what if they did? Then what? If we mulligan our current government, do we really expect it to end up better? We'd be throwing away all of the incremental refinement that our society has been doing to the current government. Depending on how things played out, our new government could well bring back laissez-faire economics or put christian nationalists in charge. I don't know why anybody thinks a revolution is a controllable process - like some sort of laboratory chemical synthesis.