# I fear I'm about to lose my country

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [October 22, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926 "2023-10-22T16:48:16Z")
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### Author: ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926/715 "2024-10-16T02:47:51Z")

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> [@Frodo](#):
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> On the other hand, the universities truly cannot continue with these wages for professors, and the students are young and enthusiastic, they may continue with this indefinitely.

This reminds me so much of how South Korea was in the 1970s and into the 1980s. The only things, really, that stopped that were the assassination of their ~~dictator~~ president and the (years long) aftermath of the Gwangju Uprising.

> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Why isn’t it Election _month_? Why isn’t vote by mail required by federal law as a no-excuses, no gamesmanship option for all elections? Etc., for another dozen ways to make voting a minor imposition on everyone’s schedule rather than a nationwide disruptive clusterfuck?

You must have missed [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-voter-suppression/922002).

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