r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/Prudent_Research_251 14h ago

There's been hundreds of years worth of checks and balances/psyops to ensure we're all too keen on bread and circuses to revolt

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u/atoolred 10h ago

Not to mention that even if we did get rowdy, protection against popular uprising was planned for in the US constitution, having been drafted immediately after Shays’ Rebellion

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u/Prudent_Research_251 8h ago

Can you please elaborate on this a little?