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The Degradation of Democratic Norms is abstract (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by alphanerd4 to c/usauthoritarianism

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From a game theory perspective, it is impossible to create a system that is immune to bad faith actors. They will always find cracks to squeeze through. The people within the system have to proactively police against bad faith actors.

[–] HappycamperNZ 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can make a system thats immune- you just have to make they pay offs force a better result than being self interested. The mafia broke the prisoners dilemma by killing everyone that confessed - we should apply the same and execute Trump for attempting to breach the constitution for his own self interest. See how many people try again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The mafia is not famous for being able to provide a stable environment which is safe for the people within it who follow the rules and can scale up to hundreds of millions of people while keeping everything relatively safe and reasonable

“We'll just kill everyone who threatens us” is a tempting solution for a government that is under threat, but the historical examples of that strategy playing out well for anyone even over the short term are few and far between, even when it seemed pretty justified at the time

[–] HappycamperNZ 2 points 6 months ago

You're right they aren't, I was using it as an example. I'm not fully versed in UCMJ (think thats the right one) but as ex commander in chief Trump is a part of the armed forces, and the penalty for Treason is execution. Not asking a new law to come out, only a reminder that we have laws, and no one is above them.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear 2 points 6 months ago

Then the bad faith actors will just exploit that system to kill people they want dead.