@mydogwrotethis oh sweet summer child. Words don't matter to fascists, they have no beliefs other than believing an invisible ethereal spirit has chosen them to enforce the hierarchy, and they will say or do anything to further that cause.

They're 'beliefs' are much easier to understand through that lense. If conspiracy theories weren't a route to power then they wouldn't believe them, because in reality they don't believe anything they say. It's that simple.

The lust for unending political domination over others is what drives even their most intimate and strongly professed beliefs, not the other way around. They don't give a single fuck about the greed of their party.

@GrimmReality America, like any empire, is not a nationality but rather a legal status which indicates where one is on that hierarchy you mention.

@RickiTarr the wrong person can change any system and there is simply nothing that can be done about that. Constitutional dexterity that maintains methods of robust dispute resolution are the instruments which can unravel any dictatorship.

Constitutional and legislative stagnation always leads to demise, but that doesn't mean the opposite will always protect or prevent demise, but it does make it easier to recover.

@RickiTarr the problem here isnt that the constitution can be changed, it's that it cannot be changed *fast enough*.

It is an issue of concensus, particularly at scale.