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Name any other election in recent history in which the prime candidate for a major party is a felon and who previously incited an insurrection against his own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

People really should care. We have right now a full on delusional republican party hell bent on destroying our norms and dragging us as backwards as they can. Worse than ever before.

It's a far more serious and real threat today than it was under bush.

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The situations aren't even comparable. We're literally talking about a guy who attempted a coup and insurrection. It's not hyperbolic or a what-if scenario. It literally happened.

And now he's running on a platform of being a day 1 dictator and promising revenge on his political opponents.

I'm not sure why you're looking at it as a "meh, maybe he's just kidding around." situation.

He's literally telling you what he plans to do.

[u/TheTaoOfOne → u/[deleted]]

You keep saying that. I heard you loud and clear the first time. And you could be right. The problem is I've seen every Republican before Trump in my life accused of the same thing.

Every republican has promised to be a dictator day 1, go after their political enemies, and previously incite an insurrection? I must've missed all those times.

I'm seeing constant outrageous accusations of things like concentration camps on our border, police attacking peaceful protesters with literally tanks and chemical weapons, we're arming a genocide, etc. It's the apocalypse man!!

Have your previous republican president's actually done those things and promised to do more? Trump has.

How do I know what you're telling me isn't just another BS bloodbath thing or if it's a real thing? No ones bothering to listen anymore.

Because these are things that Trump has literally Already done and promised to do more of?

Again, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying no one's listening. THAT's the problem. So what led to that? What caused that? Knowing that is how you can fix this problem.

What led to that? A lack of education amongst our population for starters? A lack of critical thinking?

I'm not sure why you keep pretending like this is some big mystery. People not listening is them just being dumb.

Mystery solved.

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It's like you're being deliberately obtuse. This isn't Biden or the democrats saying these things.

We had an entire damn impeachment hearing on January 6th. Was that something you just slept through and insulated yourself against?

Trump himself said he wanted to be a dictator for a day.

Why are you pretending like this is some big conspiracy? Are you really that out of the loop on things?