I’m keeping a link to this comment to see how well it ages

It's currently historically accurate. It's aged 250 years so far.

Civil war? Elections. WWII? Elections. Covid? Elections.

Teever an hour ago | parent | next [-]

In your world view is it possible for empires to fall?

If so, why do you think this is not relevant to this particular empire at this particular time?

Wake up. Things are different this time in case you haven’t noticed

	▲	malfist 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Things are absolutely different, but there is no mechanism in the constitution for canceling elections.
	▲	margalabargala 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yes, of course they are different. We're not embroiled in an active Civil War with tens of thousands dead and a third of the country having seceded. Most things are different from that.
	▲	nostrademons 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They may be, but if there are no elections, there is no United States. Constitutionally, its government is predicated on having elected representatives. I could see Trump trying this, but I also can see dozens of other people or groups, some richer, more powerful, more competent, and more ruthless than Trump, just waiting in the wings for the guardrails to come off to make a play to rule the territory of the former United States. If he tries and succeeds at this it's open-season. It's not a Trump dictatorship, it's a civil war, akin to the Chinese Civil War after the emperor fell or the Syrian civil war after the Arab Spring.