Remember when the tea party took over New Hampshire state government and the establishment Republicans had to team up with the dems to get it back
Thought experiment: how would a 100% republican country be like?
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Oddly enough, I think people are vastly overestimating such a country with these doomsday scenarios. The GDP would be way too low to allow such a consolidation of power. The bigger concern would be the lack of oversight over local areas, which could easily devolve back to the era of Jim Crow law. But without any black people, they'd just choose a new group to dehumanize (watch out conservative latinos & asians).
Without oversight, localities are usually the first to grow corrupt or amoral due to the minimal barriers that exist. Sometimes it happens in simply annoying ways (see any school board or HOA story) but it always has a chance to grow into something horrifying (see Jim Crow, factory work before the Labor Movement, etc.)
In these hypothetical scenarios, I would worry first about local government instead of a fascist federal government being formed.
Without oversight, localities are usually the first to grow corrupt or amoral due to the minimal barriers that exist. Sometimes it happens in simply annoying ways (see any school board or HOA story) but it always has a chance to grow into something horrifying (see Jim Crow, factory work before the Labor Movement, etc.)
In these hypothetical scenarios, I would worry first about local government instead of a fascist federal government being formed.
swap the burkas for bikinis and it's 100% this.
I see what you did there.
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Bears would have been hunted to extinction long ago during the Great Bear Wars of 2025.
Honestly, it would probably eventually just look a lot like a dumber, puritanical Russia, with a lot more minority and ethnic exploitation like we see in many oil countires.
A nuclear weapons country exploited and propped up by a mix of oligarchical figures and a singular political party(and eventually a cult of personality leader) that controls all aspects of power and is essentially there to exploit resources and capitalism to maintain their grips on power. And like Russia, a large chunk of the country would largely go ungoverned, and in that void you would get some pretty crazy right wing locales.
Regressive culture, blanketed in political propaganda, a minimal safety net, little to no labor protections, fervent nationalism, little upward mobility, weak GDP, abhorrent environmental behavior, tons of saber rattling.
A nuclear weapons country exploited and propped up by a mix of oligarchical figures and a singular political party(and eventually a cult of personality leader) that controls all aspects of power and is essentially there to exploit resources and capitalism to maintain their grips on power. And like Russia, a large chunk of the country would largely go ungoverned, and in that void you would get some pretty crazy right wing locales.
Regressive culture, blanketed in political propaganda, a minimal safety net, little to no labor protections, fervent nationalism, little upward mobility, weak GDP, abhorrent environmental behavior, tons of saber rattling.
Probably Russia, honestly. We're teetering on oligarchy as it is. Might be kinda a Russia/China hybrid maybe.
Well, America from the earlier 20th century was an apartheid regime. And these days, the right is a lot more reactionary.
That's only for people of other races. It has never applied to businesses or themselves. Which is why they're happy to take government assistance, but will always argue against expanding it. They're super hypocrites.
Realistically, it would be like Russia. A transparently corrupt oligarchy masquerading as a democracy, with a tightly controlled media apparatus. Heavily deregulated, few social safety nets, conservative ideology that values toughness. People's quality of life would be barely passable enough to bring about feelings of resignation, but never so unlivable that all-out revolt would become preferable.
I mean, there's a reason Republicans are so close with Russia. It's their ideal model for a state.
I mean, there's a reason Republicans are so close with Russia. It's their ideal model for a state.
I'm thinking South Dakota.
The state government currently looks like this.
House - 62R/8D
Senate - 32R/3D
Gov - R
The Republican party basically has the ability to do whatever they want in this state.
They've already overturned the will of the people twice (2017 Anti-corruption ballot and the recently passed marijuana legalization).
They're also in the process of passing a bill that will allow them to ignore executive actions issued by Presidents.
This state is a Republican dream, and it fucking sucks to live here.
Noem's response to Covid-19 has basically been non-existent. Damn near everyone in this state has a Bible shoved up their ass. It's rural and poor as fuck, yet the people here keep voting for people like Noem.
I'm looking forward to the day my wife and I can move. I'm almost to the point where I just want to put what I can in our cars and fully start over.
The state government currently looks like this.
House - 62R/8D
Senate - 32R/3D
Gov - R
The Republican party basically has the ability to do whatever they want in this state.
They've already overturned the will of the people twice (2017 Anti-corruption ballot and the recently passed marijuana legalization).
They're also in the process of passing a bill that will allow them to ignore executive actions issued by Presidents.
This state is a Republican dream, and it fucking sucks to live here.
Noem's response to Covid-19 has basically been non-existent. Damn near everyone in this state has a Bible shoved up their ass. It's rural and poor as fuck, yet the people here keep voting for people like Noem.
I'm looking forward to the day my wife and I can move. I'm almost to the point where I just want to put what I can in our cars and fully start over.
Don't really get the "Russia" comparison. You mean if Russia was also only occupied by Putin worshippers? Because a country full of American far right would be on another level worse than Russia right now, which is not to downplay Russia's authoritarianism but make a point about just how bad this theoretical country would be.
That's what they were going for with Nazi Germany in the beginning. A state for Germans that gave out the services you'd expect from socialism but only to the Aryan race.
This.
Afghanistan, due to outside forces, basically descended into ultra-conservative fundamentalism as a form of self-defense against external threats. The Taliban was basically everything that the religious right wants America to be, just with the "wrong" coat of arms.
Now, that said, Afghanistan under the Taliban had a lot of other problems--the aforementioned external pressures--but it's still a pretty good indication of what you can expect at the natural conclusion of the more-religious, more-traditionalist, more-fundamentalist death spiral of the far right.
They'll start cutting themselves up to further pursue "purity". Irish, Italians, polish etc will slowly get pushed out of the whiteness tent that expanded when it was convenient for them. They'll cut themselves up based on religion. Of course this is long after everyone with a darker shade of skin either left the country or made into an even more permanent underclass than now.
There'd be a lot more strange fruit hanging from the trees and swaying in the breeze.
Hunting of black and brown people as game would become America's official national sport.
Hunting of black and brown people as game would become America's official national sport.
I think everyone saying Russia is likely pretty spot on. Perhaps there could be a period of time where it waivers and they get some interesting things because it'd basically be a white ethno state with less worry about giving to others but it'd slide down that path eventually.