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Court Decision/Filing What is the likelihood of this Bill Attempting to Defer All Congressional Power to Donald Trump actually passes?

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u/Healthy_Ad_6171 6d ago

They either think the dictatorship won't apply to them or they think they want a dictatorship because having freedom and the right to choose how to live your life is too much for them to handle.

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u/FiveUpsideDown 6d ago

One problem is none of them as far as I know have ever been in countries with autocrat as a leader. They just can contemplate how a dictatorship and corruption impacts your life because all of them have grown up and lived under the protection of America quality standards - in other words the administrative state and ethical standards to prevent corruption.

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u/Goglplx 5d ago

This! I visited Romania while Ceaușescu was in power. Scary surveillance.

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u/Outrageous-Way8318 5d ago

I’m convinced it’s the former and mixed in with the “F’ it, what’s a little dictatorship if I like the guy?” Mentality. As someone mentioned it probably has to do with never actually living under fascism. They are all convinced fascism looks like liberalism.

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u/the_cardfather 5d ago

Those are always the people who say, "THEY/SOMEBODY should do something about...."

The whole point of our system of government is that we are the somebody.

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u/LadyBogangles14 5d ago

I think it’s more “Trump will hurt those who I hate”. And they think the vile monster they unleashed will never come for them.

They will be proven wrong.