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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Democracy cannot function when people no longer believe that their opponents are acting in good faith. It’s a prelude to secession or civil war.

And, when there's concrete evidence that a faction has not been acting in good faith for half a century at the least?