I didn’t vote for Trump, this is not a justification for anything he is doing, this is purely me trying to find any crumb of hope in this abysmal situation.
The country was in decline for at least a decade before Trump took office. So far everything has been a slow boil and we Americans just take it imo.
Maybe Trump will make everything so awful so quickly it will force actual change. Basically we were slowly heating the water and when it turned lukewarm Trump just cranked the heat up to max, maybe the frog realizes this and jumps out.
There’s also the social cycle theory. Things always change.
This was first proposed in “The Republic” by Plato writing down Socrates’ arguments.
I feel like the arrows are backwards
I thought this when I first looked at it as well, perhaps it is because we are both under the delusion that we are currently in a democracy.
It feels that way, but that is correct. Here’s an article that helps to understand a little better. Usually there’s a buffer between Democracy and Monarchy/Tyranny. In the case with Trump, went straight from democracy to Tyranny because they elected a monarch who was also a tyrant.
https://www.history.com/articles/what-are-platos-5-forms-of-government