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To wrap your head around what's going on now across the Western world, read:

1. Revolutions of 1830: https://www.britannica.com/event/Revolutions-of-1830

2. The Spring of Nations: https://www.britannica.com/event/Revolutions-of-1848

USA now is basically France of early-mid-19th century.

My clumsy prognosis, USA will more or less repeat the route towards the French style liberal state, possibly, with few Napoleons along the way. And if it wouldn't, then it may well end up Weimarized.



I had a read but don't understand the connection. Could you please elaborate?


Think of the "establishment" as the Ancien Régime.

Kings, and governments were replaced like worn gloves in 19th century, but the regime in general was always kind of stuck no matter what angry masses did.

Nobility, bourgeois, wealthy burghers, revolutionary hipsters kept changing, while poor, unwashed masses were kept being oppressed, and handing power to the next group of tricksters out of four above again, and again.

Changing the order of the operands does not change the resulting product.

Guillotines were only finally retired when the collective elite class was compelled to genuinely start improving the situation of downtrodden classes for the fear for their own lives, rather than some romantic altruism.




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