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Dystopia or utopia? Top 10 signs a nation might be on the verge of political collapse

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Photo above - former president Bush, caricatured by democrats as a chimp
Not shown - similar caricatures of Obama by racists

Disclaimer – I'm okay with "living in the US of A" (song lyric). But not completely thrilled. That said, I tried to come up with a test that could help me to determine if a nation is in a political death spiral . . .

Something here to trigger everyone, no doubt . . . score your results at the bottom . . .
  1. You invade your next-door neighbor to “liberate” it”. But your troops instead begin looting tractors and other farm equipment as soon as they cross the border.
  2. Your leader regularly goes to Moscow or Beijing for “consultations” and “aid discussions.”
  3. Elections are chaotic; examples: troops at the polling places, long lines, confusion as to dates/places, and incessant charges of voting irregularities
  4. Your leader has several “body doubles” who substitute for him in remote regions/provinces.
  5. Your former head of state is on trial for paying money to a woman of ill repute. While your current leader's son has fathered a child out of wedlock with one.
  6. Social media shows a government building being burned to the ground by an angry mob. But there is no subsequent discussion of arrests . . .
  7. Disfavored religions are mainly depicted in your nation's films and TV as murderers, rapists, and child molesters.
  8. Your government urges citizens to avoid specific foreign owned social media platforms, and threatens to ban them.
  9. It is a crime (resulting in imprisonment) to depict your nation's head of state as a famous cartoon character, a simian, gay, or hilariously short.
  10. Your nation has offshore (or remote interior) “dark prisons” for confining men captured in battle, kidnapped from their homelands, or "needing re-education".
Award 1 point for every "true" answer. How did you do?
  • Zero - either you're lying, or a state sponsored troll.
  • 1-3 - you live in civilized Europe. And the disenfranchised are only a rumor wrapped in an enigma to you.
  • 4-7 - the majority of countries. You're not the worst, not the best. You hate the idea of the opposing party having media access and any role in government.
  • 8-10 - flee to another nation. But please - not to the USA. People here are already sleeping on the streets. Hey - should that have been one of the indicators of impending political collapse?
 
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