Hi Deepak and TOK community members. First, please see Gregg's blog today for a TOK perspective. Second, I lived half my life in the U.S. and the 2nd half in Canada, and thus have both an "emic" and an "etic" perspective on the U.S. I would have said growing up that that would a "coup" would never be on the table in the U.S., having been taught that the U.S. represents the foremost beacon of democracy, etc., etc. But times have changed and, as per Gregg's article, we should be concerned if we're functioning politically at the level of a four-year-old. I'm not thinking a coup will happen, but I'll refrain from prognosticating and instead share a link with an excellent article from the New York Times that puts U.S. events in a bit of historical context. FYI:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/world/europe/trump-autocrats-dictators.html?searchResultPosition=3

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