Yes just what we need, more executive orders to bypass Congress. You know how you get an authoritarian state? Executive Orders.
I mean, you know how you get one much,
much faster? A coup. Remember what happened not too long ago and was supported by folks on a certain wing of our political spectrum all the way up to swaths of that congress, the spouse of a SCOTUS judge, and the literal president? That up and down that line show every indication of being willing to try again the exact moment they think it's a good time?
Short form, if you're worried about that, you've got a much, much larger concern than executive orders, right now, and it's called the GOP and pretty much everyone aligned with them, who are actively working towards an authoritarian takeover and either entirely okay with that or incapable of figuring out what they're doing.
And while I've not voted conservative in quite some time, I'm going to have to sit and think more about these cries about the new "conservative" party. I know a lot of people there, and they are generally just people trying to make their way through the world and wouldn't directly harm anyone. But I do see that many of the things they support do indirectly harm people.
So how do you get these people with legitimate personal concerns, who don't feel that the alternative party is even talking to their concerns, to stop supporting the party that talks to their personal concerns while simultaneously stomping all over "public" concerns?
There's some success with personal, one on one interaction over a long period of time. It's risky on several different levels (because let me tell you from personal experience, a
lot of those folks you're saying are just trying to make their way through the world are incredibly capable of various sorts of much more direct harm than you're thinking, under the right circumstances, such as a black person courting their kids, an immigrant moving into the neighborhood, or finding their children are some form of lgbt) and likely enough to just not work, but it's
possible to do if you're willing to take on that tremendous amount of time and often enough danger.
... on a wide scale level, you can't. It sucks to say, but practically people particularly attached to the GOP are lost to communication. Most of these folks are hateful shits about one subject or another, and are generally sunk
deep into a propaganda sphere being propagated and maintained by shitsacks that are even worse, one that blankets their entire community from news to radio. It's effectively impossible to break that under the constraints the US is under. You'd have to be able to kill Fox and its ilk, Sinclair, enforce libel and whatnot en masse on public radio in a way that would be a blatant 1A violation (possibly manageable due to this shit being a stochastic terrorism breeding chamber, but let me tell you it'd have anyone worried about actual authoritarianism), break the back of all the voter suppression and intimidation coming out of the US conservative political machines, and things of that nature.
The GOP and conservative politicians in general are pretty damn unpopular in this country with somewhere between a majority to a supermajority of the population. You just have to figure out a way to make that matter in a political system that is viciously engineered to favor anti-democratic rightwing extremists, which is damn difficult when the system you're trying to work with is rigged as hell in their favor.
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