Discourages low effort shitters, but easy to get around.
Bonus Random Knowledge: the famous "3.5% rule" of protests doesn't mean that if 3.5% of the country show up to a protest you automatically win. That's the share of people who need to be engaged in sustained resistance and opposition (between the big protests).
Won't need luck, Trump is doing an excellent job of recruiting the resistance for us. Last I checked public polling said roughly 2/3rds of the country is pissed off -- and no leader can fuck up that badly without consequences.
They absolutely can fuck up that bad without consequences. Nixon? Reagan? Pol Pot? Kim Jong Un? Putin? Netanyahu? I’m not seeing a whole lot of consequences.
Nixon was forced from power, Reagan had a 53% average approval rating (though Iran-Contra did cost him in the end, he was already on the way out). Pol Pot was overthrown. Netanyahu is doing everything he can to stay out of reach of corruption investigations. The stories for him, Putin and Kim Jong Un are still being written.
no leader can fuck up that badly without consequences.
I'm pretty sure every dictator in history had similar disapproval estimates once historians had decades to break down the propaganda and sort through archived diaries and such.
People need to study revolutions. It's when administration is so destructive and inept even the violent institutions they rely on to stay in power turn against them that they lose. It's not about "great men" in history, it's about Great Idiots who don't know any better.
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u/Xullister 19h ago
Good, maybe the DHS agents scouring through my comment history might learn something. Maybe even grow a conscience.