South Korean president is attempting a coup d'etat
(www.reuters.com)
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I’ve never been able to understand the governing structures of seemingly every other “democratic” government in the world aside from the US. I couldn’t imagine the president just telling the military to kick out the opposition party and arrest them because they were slowing down legislature.
A few years ago some republican state legislators fled Oregon to prevent a quorum for some vote, and the governor was either threatening to send or sent State police to round them up.
Ultimately that scenario also used threat of State violence and "arrest" to force an unfavorable legislative outcome.
Though admittedly in the West we aren't so brazen as to use the military for such ends. Instead we'll just threaten to release the footage from the coke orgies that Madison Crawford talked about shortly before the Republican party "coincidentally" pulled all funding and support from his re-election campaign.
I'm surprised that they obeyed orders. In fact, some people are speculating that this coup is actually driven by the military rather than by the president, which would make more sense.
France faced an abortive coup in the early 1960s due to French politicians betraying French Algeria, which De Gaulle used to make himself president . He then turned his back on French Algeria anyway.
The current administration was doing it through the Deep State.