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Jonathan's avatar

Your prose is so readable--so fun to read and easy to comprehend, without being dumbed-down at all, that I don't even know how much of it I agree with, but since it's such a pleasure to read I'll keep reading it. Thanks.

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Ezra's avatar

The dictator's not going to be elected, though, whether openly or sneakily; it's just not going to happen. If the Managerium rigged an election against an innocuous nobody like Trump, then of course they'd rig an election against somebody who looked at all dictatorial.

This is why I think that you ought to regularly gesture in an offhand yet vaguely significant way toward the very slowly yet steadily increasing likelihood of a colonel-led military coup. This will eventually get some young lieutenants thinking; they'll publicly laugh it off, of course, but when they've had a few drinks together they might start discussing the question of who, or what kind of person, would be a good dictator to install in the America of an imaginary world in which this coup occurs.

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