The next time someone tells you the youth aren’t engaged enough in politics, just point them to Nepal.
According to multiple reports, the youth of the South Asian nation managed to oust the existing government following an attempted ban of major social media platforms and took to Discord to hold an impromptu convention to elect an interim prime minister.
The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister. Karki, who accepted the role, is expected to pick a new cabinet and eventually hold elections. According to the Times, that is expected to happen within the next six months or so.
If only this is how it could go down in the US. Sigh…
but … it would be very un-American to fight corruption and listen to the demands of the people.
Unfortunately, when it happens here its going to be a long, awful, drawn out, bloody conflict.
The No Kings protests demonstrated, if literally nothing else, that record-breaking groups of people across the country can remain mostly peaceful with extremely high underlying emotions churning.
This administration will be the downfall of the system and people will barely have to lift a finger. When the US economy inevitably crashes, people’s comfort will be in jeopardy - mass bloodshed will not restore that. This isn’t the 1800s, we literally are too numerous and our systems are too fragile to support and sustain a massive, drawn-out civil war.
conservative gang factions already killing each other, we can wait a bit longer as they weaken
They’re in the purge phase. The Night of the Long Knives approaches as we head into October.
I wonder what the US military would do if the current administration’s head was cut off quickly enough so no significant orders went out to the military from them. Marshal law then eventually an election?
That would be Martial law
Under circumstances as dire as those you only have one shot, one opportunity.
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Marital law?
Pregernante?
The head of the snake is very difficult to remove in the US because we have extensive, and very clearly spelled out succession laws, and the people next in line are just terrible.
Under current law, you would need to kill 22 people before replacements can be appointed. Possibly less if some of them are not constitutionally eligible to be president; but if it ever got to that point, I suspect we would ignore that provision.
Pulling this off is made even more difficult by both the heightened security given to everyone in the line of succession; and the fact that under our continuity of government plans, those people are deliberately never all in the same place at the same time.
Anything that could accomplish a full decapitation strike would likely require marshall law anyway, and would likely make the conditions for an election difficult.
So the only solution is europe grows some balls and nukes America, then whatever caveman is left, gets elected. Got it!
Don’t forget, the house or senate can just pick another magat for Acting President. You basically need a designated survivor type incident, except without the designated survivor.