You're wrong. We had a Presidential candidate propose a competency test for enfranchisement and it was a widely popular position.
First of all he gained prominence in the wake of his party destabilizing the global economy through a manufactured mortgage crisis in the prior decade. He then ran as an outsider, despite having not only deep state roots but blood ties to everyone from the Bush clan to the fucking British royals, his populist rhetoric was an almost word for word plagiarism of Nestor Kirchner's first presidential run- Kirchner a lawyer of similar dubious origins whose wife was a member of one of the most violent leftwing terror groups in Argentine history. Who's law firm was heavily involved in moving money for the Saudis who later hijacked a couple planes.
Much like the Obamas.
Later on, after winning an extremely dubious election wherein he later deported the exact number of voting-age illegals by which he won certain states, he turns the security state loose, runs the economy further into the ground than it already was, and begins throwing hundreds of Americans into black sites. - following the Kirchner-Chavez-Lula playbook which was written by none other than Fidel Castro himself.
Obama was your typical Latam dictator- most strong men aren't like fucking Fidel Castro and Juan Domingo Peron.
Most are like Pedro Eugenio Aramburu whose entire reason for doing what he did was to "restore sanity, democracy and justice".
Sound familiar?
Yeah, you have a Cold War pop culture understanding of where I come from... and the world in general.
We're a quarter of the way through a new century, discard GI Joe and embrace the relentless glowopping of Earth Final Conflict! Take the Boone pill!
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No, I want someone more like Juan Manuel De Rosas, who subverted the federal oligarchy against its masters, then proceeded to unfuck Argentina and make it a place so magnificent it inspired Darwin.
I want that for the US, not because I believe in the easy way out, but because I believe we are rapidly approaching a point of no return where either...Americans, by some miracle, pull off a ballot box reform, or I start seeing concentration camps sometime in the next five years, and then a right-wing backlash so titanic it sunders this country and destroys the global economy...maybe forever.
I'd rather a decisive- soft-power right-wing
legal tyranny by popular consent ala Taiwan in the 50's and 60's, where the groups responsible for this travesty lose some of their rights for a few generations...than my children being black-bagged by Feds on the way to a nightclub and then taken to a party approved progressive rape camp - the way one of my aunts was abducted, raped, impregnated, then murdered in the 1970s.
I can see what's coming...we're rapidly approaching a point where we have only 3, maybe 4 outcomes, and only two of those are "good," and one of them is the most ideal, but it's looking less and less likely.
Also I'm a fucking US citizen genius
this is my homeland now.
The Vivek Ramaswamy approach.
Which incidentally, has been gaining traction everywhere center-right and right leaning zoomers and alphas get their news.