(07-11-2023, 09:09 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Man, great minds, I tell you. Great minds.

I have to run to the store, but what happens when the elections are not free and fair. Forget Trump. Just imagine whatever Utopia you want, then imagine elections get corrupted. How does this get resolved?

Depends on the skill of the party in charge.  May last for a few generations, but it ends with revolution, and most revolutions are bloody.  As for me, I would immediately call for revolution, but how far I got with it would depend on my skill and theirs.  I'm not the tienamen tank man, but, neither are you, and neither are most people on this board.  I would find some like-minded armed individuals and begin finding ways to intimidate the local officials that seem to be most in on it, or, whose role makes them particularly useful if they could covertly change sides.  This would include threats of capture and public humiliation, perhaps even assassination, paired with large public protests that would straddle the line of what the regime would tolerate, just so those receiving the threats would know it wasn't just some rando.  Just some thoughts.  You?

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