Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/18/1-in-3-americans-ok-with-military-rule.html
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Counterpoint - 2 in 3 Americans NOT okay with military rule… 
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And, ZERO Founding Fathers were OK with it.
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Don’t like it here? Go back to that monarchy that you came from!
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Is it the same 1 in 3 Americans that vote?
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I think Devo said it pretty well:
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Time to post The Strongman Fantasy again.
Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won’t. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it.
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It’s the usual Know-Nothing 27%/Crazification Factor, give or take. No surprise here.
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I mean, they didn’t seem all that keen on being told what to do during the pandemic… 
How are they going to cope with rationing and having to buy stuff with hard currency on the black market 'cos of corruption and incompetence?
Not to mention the check-points, death-squads, disappearances, torture and the mistaken identities and all that stuff that’s inevitably part of the package?
Idiots.
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Well fake Touhey, you should have actually read the study. Far, far more nuanced and worth serious discussion instead of treating it like net chum.
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They don’t think that any of that will affect them. The strongman is their strongman; he hurts the people they want to hurt.
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explains that when people feel threatened, “Authoritarianism and a ‘strongman’ leader who’s willing to trample over civil rights can sound like a very appealing solution.”
Jesus Christ, what do these people have to feel threatened about? It’s all boogymen drummed up by Fox News and right wing pundits and politicians.
If anyone is actually under a threat, it’s the people demonized by these right-wing authoritarians and women.
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In other news, 2 in 3 Americans are fed up with the bullshit from the 1 in 3 morons.
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FIFY! 
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The part that has me beating my head against the wall is that these are largely the same people who believe that civilians should be able to carry weapons of war in case they are ever called upon to fight back against an out-of-control Federal government.
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That monarchy does not exist anymore…
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“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.” (Thomas Jefferson)
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Sure, but it’s all they know; those drummers have been at it for decades now.
Plus, they seem to tend to be evangelicals as well, and their deity of choice seems to fit the description of ‘authoritarian’.
No wonder they worship Lord Dampnut.
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