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by smrtinsert 452 days ago
After reading this article read up on the constitutional flaws in the Weimar Republic. It is fascinating to see how a country can be ultimately brought down by its own legal structure if it's not designed well.
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Yes. Constitutional change or emergency decrees are a fundamental threat to democracy. I read an article last week from a fscking dean of law from Berkeley arguing that we should hold a constitutional convention so we could sneak in an abolition of the constitution.

I fear we are in a world where we’re are simply going to be rotating dictators every 4-8 years unless power is reclaimed from government.

It is something else to see it happen in real-time.

Like a month ago I was defending e.g. Musk against uninformed attacks online.