So many layers of The Process and the only defense against political assassinations is voting.
We are so far past the point of voting our way out. We're the most propagandized people on earth. My god. And the US has been assassinating political rivals since it's founding. It's a country built on assassinating political rivals.
I agree that they don't really believe what they're saying. The west is so insulated from civil war, coups, assassinations, political violence, extreme inflation, or other rapid changes in quality of life that the things they are talking about are completely abstract. Decades ought to be measured in centuries in the west because nothing really changes.
That’s the gigantic paradox with the West, simultaneously the most insulated from that sort of turmoil yet constantly afraid that they’re the most exposed to it.