Meanwhile, 44 percent backed the American tradition of competing branches of government as a model, if sometimes ā€œfrustrating,ā€ system.

Why would people want to live under an authoritarianā€™s thumb? Itā€™s rooted, experts say, in a psychological need for securityā€”real or perceivedā€”and a desire for conformity, a goal that becomes even more acute as the country undergoes dramatic demographic and social changes. People also like to obey a strong leader who will protect the groupā€”especially if it is the ā€œrightā€ group whose interests will be protected. Recall the Trump supporter who, during the 2019 government shutdown, complained, ā€œHeā€™s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.ā€

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    That wonā€™t count for shit when only 20% of us have guns or whatever the number is. Almost all of them do

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      Theyā€™re absolute cowards anyways. They get scared of a trans person in the bathroom or someone with slightly too much melanin in their skin walking by. Theyā€™d just implode or run away in fear if they see their opposition with a gun. Also, Iā€™d say a lot more non-nazis than 20% have guns in America. Plenty of normal people have them

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        You can still shoot at shit your scared of, and generally they do a lot of it. Itā€™s really dangerous to hand wave away shit like that.

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        Because its fucking scary have you seen what the people involved with project 2025 are saying?