[ornornor]

It’s fascinating to watch, from a distance. If I was a US resident, or worse: US citizen, I’d be terrified.

[mrkeen]

Your politicians are watching from a distance too, and taking note of what works.

[Aeolun]

We have a functioning political system, and not nearly as much power concentrated into the hands of a single person.

[mrkeen]

Three branches of government, two houses, mix of federal and state powers, checks and balances, an impeachment system, all that stuff?

[Hikikomori]

Our elected officials don't have any direct power over government agencies (ministerstyre), they create laws that the agencies need to follow. Then we have independent bodies that can investigate and remove bureaucrats that don't follow the law.

Now are there any cracks in this system? Probably. But we dont have a president with unlimited power than can only be checked by congress at this point.

[Aeolun]

I think key is not having an executive branch that consists of a single person and/or party.

[pseudalopex]

For now.

[easyThrowaway]

Eh, they've already seen that with the balkans and eastern bloc countries in the 80-90s. You're gonna get a bunch of Orbàn-like small time dictators on every state that once on a while have to bow to the requests of a central-government more interested in its own political intrigues than governing anything.

US Doomers are expecting something similar to the Civil War movie in the next few years, the reality will be more similar to "The Lives Of Others".

[senectus1]

yes, I've noticed a huge uptick in the right wing party using almost exactly the same language and bullshit moves.

[bigiain]

Fiveeyes resident here, and not quite "terrified", but at least "deeply concerned".

"The rest of the world" will not carry on unscathed if the worse end of the range of possible outcomes for the US happen.

(I'm deeply curious about how fiveeyes intelligence operations with Canada are going right now.)

[iancmceachern]

We are

[dinkumthinkum]

It's worse to be a US citizen? Then why are so many people coming in the US and why are so many people upset about removing the ones that come here illegally? It seems like people should be happy the federal government is giving them free rides away from here if it is so bad ...