[AmishDude]

However if the Supreme Court allows such acts and importantly, the People tolerate them, then yes. The Republic is dead and all that is left is what to do with the corpse.

"acts" is it? How many such acts should we wait for? I mean, I need to schedule my suicide. Or as Laz would call it: "wedding".

[Ophiucus]

I was being general. In specifics, I would say we are seeing the Republic skate close to the edge again. I say again in that the failed impeachment and the fiasco of the 2000 election were other times.

It builds. The 2000 election would not have been possible without the weakening of the laws and safeguards that occurred in the preceeding years. Likewise, I don't think that a ban on the First Ammendment could have occured without the erosion of Two through Ten.

True, many changes in the world are gradual and where do you pick a line of demarcation? Make a subjective choice or say it is all relative so no choice can be made?