# About that "end of democracy" talk **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 28, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796 "2021-12-28T17:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796/161 "2022-01-06T13:56:55Z")
I wouldn’t take too much stock in party registration. Many people registered decades ago and didn’t bother changing. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796/162 "2022-01-06T15:18:50Z")
Or low-information voters going for name recognition. “I’m doing alright and I’ve been voting for McConnell all my life. Why should I change now?” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796/163 "2022-01-25T13:29:06Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I take these warnings seriously. There are perhaps 25% of Americans who would be just fine with a dictatorship as long as they get to pick the dictator. Those 25% will already vote for DJT no matter what. To beat him, the Democrats need to get 2/3 of the sane 75% of the population. That’s by no means given. Once again in power, there would be a purge like never before seen and everyone in every government agency and in the military chain of command would be replaced by True Believers. Then we’ll get a premanent “temporary” martial law and no more elections. I’d say the odds are 50-50. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796/164 "2022-01-25T18:26:27Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I wouldn’t take too much stock in party registration. Many people registered decades ago and didn’t bother changing. Yeah, a little over 5% of Kentucky’s population is over 75, who would have registered no later than the mid-'60s, when Wallace’s Dixiecrats would have been recent memory and before the “Southern Strategy” flipped the South to Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796/165 "2022-01-26T00:54:16Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > There are perhaps 25% of Americans who would be just fine with a dictatorship as long as they get to pick the dictator _“Freedom means I have a buck in my pocket, a gun in the truck rack, I can preach Jesus anywhere I go, tell f\_ g and ni\_\_\_r jokes and grab bitches by the you-know-what. And so what if we can’t talk smack for public record about the Government, people should shut up and suck it up anyway, the strong ruling is just the natural order!”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796.md?page=8)