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US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
The Guardian via MSN ^ | Jan. 2, 2022 | Richard Luscombe

Posted on 01/03/2022 12:23:49 AM PST by Rennes Templar

The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the “collapse of American democracy”.

“We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine,” Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.

“In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace.”

Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: “By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship.”

The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Trump, he warned, “will have only two objectives, vindication and vengeance” of the lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden was the result of electoral fraud.

A “scholar of violent conflict” for more than four decades, Homer-Dixon said Canada must take heed of the “unfolding crisis”.

“A terrible storm is coming from the south, and Canada is woefully unprepared. Over the past year we’ve turned our attention inward, distracted by the challenges of Covid-19, reconciliation and the accelerating effects of climate change.

“But now we must focus on the urgent problem of what to do about the likely unraveling of democracy in the United States. We need to start by fully recognizing the magnitude of the danger. If Mr. Trump is re-elected, even under the more optimistic scenarios the economic and political risks to our country will be innumerable.”

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To: Rennes Templar

Leftist Canadians regarded Trump to be an extreme right wing dictator, so by their standards they are probably right.


21 posted on 01/03/2022 2:20:53 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Rennes Templar
"I say we take off an nuke the site from orbit..."


22 posted on 01/03/2022 2:31:42 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Rennes Templar

A hyphen in the last name usually means .. born a bastard! Obviously that is true here.
Canada and Australia are now lost causes.


23 posted on 01/03/2022 2:41:28 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Rennes Templar
Yes, a rightwing dictatorship of a government limited and constrained by a Constitution, with the various States and the People themselves exercising their rights.

This is dangerous! People might choke on the sweet air of Freedom.

24 posted on 01/03/2022 3:04:08 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Sirius Lee
Actually, I'm more hoping for the right-wing dictatorship of the Augustus Pinochet model.


25 posted on 01/03/2022 3:06:38 AM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Perfect rhetoric coming from the Castro-controlled, communist satrapy of the British Empire.


26 posted on 01/03/2022 3:08:07 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Lazamataz

LOL! Love that graphic.


27 posted on 01/03/2022 3:08:40 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Rennes Templar

It would be better than the leftist, democrat taliban party oligarchy we are currently living with.


28 posted on 01/03/2022 3:28:11 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MamaB

He’s obviously seeing the coming and current tyranny, but he can’t see the cause. Maybe moron, or too woke to perceive the truth.


29 posted on 01/03/2022 3:34:37 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Rennes Templar

Let it be so before 2030.

First wipe out all the cockroaches in the USA and then afterwards exterminate the cockroaches in Canada.
Heh, heh, heh!


30 posted on 01/03/2022 3:57:49 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Rennes Templar

If anything it will be from the left. It’s already started.


31 posted on 01/03/2022 4:01:37 AM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: MamaB
"Who is this?"

Just another no name professor looking for his 5 minutes of notoriety and an invite to appear on MSNBC. The world will soon forget him and he will return to his mediocre, meaningless existence.

32 posted on 01/03/2022 4:13:29 AM PST by Russ (I )
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To: Rennes Templar

He was off by 10 years....Biden beat him to it!


33 posted on 01/03/2022 4:14:21 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Rennes Templar

Right wing dictatorship to the left means a freedom loving republic to true Americans.

The left wouldn’t know what to do with a government that doesn’t tell them what to do.


34 posted on 01/03/2022 4:53:37 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Rennes Templar

We’re already under left wing dictatorship.


35 posted on 01/03/2022 5:04:12 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Rennes Templar
“A terrible storm is coming from the south, and Canada is woefully unprepared. Over the past year we’ve turned our attention inward, distracted by the challenges of Covid-19, reconciliation and the accelerating effects of climate change.

“But now we must focus on the urgent problem of what to do about the likely unraveling of democracy in the United States.

How about you mind your own business and just be glad we're around to keep you safe from the world.

36 posted on 01/03/2022 5:18:20 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Rennes Templar

Maybe the canucks should concern themselves about their own affairs.


37 posted on 01/03/2022 5:18:27 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: Rennes Templar

As opposed to the leftist dictator we have today?


38 posted on 01/03/2022 5:23:54 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Pollard

Canada is actually worse than Mexico. Canada condones and perhaps condones the migrant flow from Asia (India and Pakistan)

Within this year, there is going to be a very heavy migration out of China and Xi imposes total China Socialism while destroying anything that smacks of Capitalism. Many will come to Canada


39 posted on 01/03/2022 5:25:49 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) California needs Zorro to destroy the neoNobility corruption)
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To: Rennes Templar

The article is full of hypnotic propaganda. It dares to gave only one concrete example:
“What happens, for instance, if high-profile political refugees fleeing persecution arrive in our country and the US regime demands them back?”

The language is being changed before our eyes. They would define “persecution” as jail time for Antifa rioters, or for imprisoned guards who kept J6 “insurrectionists” without trial, or for de-licensed and fined builders of covid anti-vaxxed camps, or for any covidian doctors sentenced as a result of Nuremberg II.

A negotiated county-by-county breakup will be painful, but is the only way to save our descendants from an inevitable violent war.


40 posted on 01/03/2022 5:37:41 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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