A lot of it is due to the ideological education of this society. They can see, as anyone who bothers to look, that this country is messed up. The problem though is the immense anti-communist ideology in this society. So they are cut off from real solutions from the start. They’ve been taught that the solutions to the problems are the causes of the problems. The only answers they can see are down roads that will only make things worse instead of better.

“Democracy is on the ballot! Trump will ban voting!”

I guess the way I understand it is that while the sanctions are still there without monitors they have a bit more room to maneuver.

Headlines in a few weeks: Humanoid shaped lifeform holding what appears to be a vaguely weapon shaped object spotted in the vicinity of dying Palestinian.

That’s exactly why, they discovered that blatant fascism generates resistance. So they go for obscurant fascism, plausibly deniable fascism. As long as they can keep enough people thinking “it’s not that bad yet” they get to keep playing.

US: Look at all those “rogue states!”

Just recent events and the fact that I tend to have a depressive personality in general. When shit goes down like this it always messes me up.

Since I didn’t see it mentioned yet PAEKTU SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE