On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows presidents to deploy the U.S. military domestically under certain circumstances, purportedly to help enforce local law enforcement amid civil unrest. Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration’…

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  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    Of course he has, this has been part of the plan from the start. Agitate the masses till they riot, and then declare martial law. Here’s the next step in the plan. His immediate personal goal is to cancel the mid-term elections, the GOP’s goal is to end the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

    Every world leader is envious of the power Putin and Jinping wield.

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      It never WAS a democracy. The American people have never had any real choice or voice in regard to policy. You’re forced to pick between electing “representatives” from two parties who are funded by the same billionaires and hold the same interests. Whether Democrat or Republican, they fundamentally still uphold the same neoliberal policies. The only difference is now they’re giving up the veil of democracy.

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      Every world leader is envious of the power Putin and Jinping wield.

      Americans such as yourself seem unable or unwilling to face the fact that their country is fundamentally built to enforce the will of a small, powerful class (the bourgeois) over the masses. Their empire rules the whole world and yet it always has to be someone else’s fault when the bad things they do to everyone else come home.

      Jinping is his given name, by the way. You meant to say Xi.

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      The Republican party should be disbanded and outlawed and every single consevative in this nation should be shunned by their communities for the remainder of their lives.

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        This is effectively the one-party state model, which is what we should be working towards. What must be noted however is that no one in the Democratic party would support this. The role of the Democrats is to serve as feeble unactionable “opposition” that in reality serve the same interests of the ruling class. What we need to do is abolish both the Republican and Democratic parties and replace them with a party that actually suits the interest of the working class.