Subject: Re: 2024 election violence level forecast?
Given current technology, if we lose democracy we likely will never get it back. Just look at China. They have a 1984-like surveillance apparatus. No one can do anything without government knowing about it. I very much doubt they will ever be free. Same with DPRK. Not without external intervention, which would possibly result in global conflagration. If we lose it, and authoritarianism takes-hold, it's over. Whomever comes out on top will have the technology for crowd control, kick-ass weapons, and the capability for complete surveillance to head off any insurrection or rebellion before it can go anywhere.

The only thing preventing that is stable institutions that respect the rule of law. If those go, we're screwed.