• grue@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    [Citation needed]

    Noth Korea, for instance, is lasting just fine. And it’s hardly the only recent example of a dictatorship whose leaders have died comfortably of old age.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      There’s many levels of control in NK. Not that it can’t happen here but it’ll take a ton of changes such as:

      • Restricted travel
      • Clear danger of punishment for speaking ill of leadership
      • Extreme xenophobia (we’re getting there for sure)
      • Restricted access to information and censorship
      • Bombardment of patriotic and nationalist rhetoric
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      10 hours ago

      When a party controls all levels of life, it greatly reduces the risk to the leader. When I see Christian nationalists praising Trump as a prophet, I think of the Japanese in WWII or North Koreans in their love and devotion to their god head.

      What’s very concerning is the removal multiple agencies that provide guardrails for the public. Placing useful idiots in charge of some of the most important positions will lead many of the best people to leave their roles. We’ll see the faithful remain who will not question what they are told to perform.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 hours ago

        Placing useful idiots in charge of some of the most important positions will lead many of the best people to leave their roles

        Read Project 2025. They will be firing all of these people and replacing them with Trump loyalists.