Systems broken by greedy authoritarians

Nationalistic Hubris run Amok = America Under Inevitable DUHnocchianism: what happens when a worshiped, but defective constitution crumbles under a poorly-informed, corporate-swindled electorate combined with a political and legislative system rigged to benefit greedy authoritarians:

How Democracy Dies, American-Style: Sharpies, auto emissions and the weaponization of policy.

"Democracies used to collapse suddenly, with tanks rolling noisily toward the presidential palace. In the 21st century, however, the process is usually subtler.

Authoritarianism is on the march across much of the world, but its advance tends to be relatively quiet and gradual, so that it’s hard to point to a single moment and say, this is the day democracy ended. You just wake up one morning and realize that it’s gone.

In their 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt documented how this process has played out in many countries, from Vladimir Putin’s [overstretched] Russia, to [stage-your-own-coup] Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, to Viktor Vicktator Orban’s Hungary [not to mention, the crumbling "United" Kingdom with its bombastic, bullying Buffoon-in-Chief]. Bit by bit the guardrails of democracy were torn down, as institutions meant to serve the public became tools of the ruling party, then were weaponized to punish and intimidate that party’s opponents. On paper these countries are still democracies; in practice they have become one-party regimes.

And the events of the past week have demonstrated how this can happen right here in America."