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Confused by "What it takes" to even think about deposing the president. (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by MrSulu@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The US is a nation that has monthly, if not weekly, school shooting massacres. I repeat, massacres. Of their own children. They did not rise up. Their president is a convicted felon, starting or agitating wars. Women, have no say over their own bodies. Black and brown people are at significant risk of unnecessary stops, arrests and death. The people did not rise up. Petrol prices increase, people begin to rise.....

I have holidayed, travelled and worked with different Americans, with different political views. They are absolutely normal.

Is it really the minority of MAGA nutjobs that are so very loud, belligerent and unstoppable that are needed to get this Trump administration turned over?

Not looking for an argument, just devastated for my friends and family over there.

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[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago

To depose a power it is required to have a competitive alternative power structure. When third world leaders are deposed, it's usually by the military, and they usually have either broad popular support or internacional financial support (or ambivalence). Sadly no such alternative structure exists at any level of the US.

"The people" never rise up for themselves without such structures, and movements that underestimate the importance of alternative power (like CHAZ) are doomed.