what if one day a presidential candidate that was bought and paid for by lobbyists got into the white house and then broke all the promises they made to their donors?

if a hypothetical closeted Marxist who tricked their corporate backers got into the white house what could they do with that power?

  • HamManBad [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The ideology of the individual doesn’t matter if there isn’t a mass movement behind them, which seems to be the case in your scenario. They will fail to much of anything worthwhile outside of possibly sabotage to the state, which would make communism very unpopular with most people. This is essentially an adventurist project

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        1 year ago

        Since we’re delving into hypotheticals, what if there’s a reverse Chancellor Palpatine situation where the head of government is ruling both sides. Like the President is also in secret contact with Huey Newton/Lenin. While the president gets elected an in power with flashy backing, they secretly make moves to help the also growing commies. Then in a final coup de grat show their power level and order 66 the fashies and have the Newton commies fill the void. Since we’re doing fantasy here.