# If Mike Pence had obeyed the pied piper of Trump Tower? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mike-pence-had-obeyed-the-pied-piper-of-trump-tower/966501 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Tags:** trump **Created:** [June 20, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mike-pence-had-obeyed-the-pied-piper-of-trump-tower/966501 "2022-06-20T13:39:15Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 15
### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy) #### Post date: [June 21, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mike-pence-had-obeyed-the-pied-piper-of-trump-tower/966501/15 "2022-06-21T02:06:31Z")
> [@ThisOneGuy](#): > > After all, if you really believed that democracy was ending and a dictatorship being set up, wouldn’t you do more than just re-post facebook memes? See this thread about just how much all of us are planning on (not) doing if/when this happens again with greater success. 99% of the folks in Czechoslavakia sat out the Velvet Revolution. 1% made the difference. Ditto in the “color revolutions” nearby. > [@How are you preparing for the coming fascist authoritarian regime?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-preparing-for-the-coming-fascist-authoritarian-regime/966426): > > So we are approaching a midterm election two years after barely unseating a would be dictator from the presidency and the Democratic Party has made seemingly no effort to persuade the public that it can’t be allowed to happen again. Furthermore, Republican state politicians have taken step after step to ensure that they will never lose another election. Trump just announced that should he become president again, he will pardon anyone who is convicted of participating in the attempted coup of Ja… So we should not be surprised that the vast majority of rightists nationwide didn’t arise and storm their local City Hall. But rest assured they are making their interests known via their donations, tweets, and general followership of the (largely Russian-sponsored / inspired) RW media / disinformation / grift campaign --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mike-pence-had-obeyed-the-pied-piper-of-trump-tower/966501)._