re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have seen time and time again that when democracies give someone “emergency powers” to deal with a crisis, they never want to relinquish those powers, and perpetuate the crisis or help find or create a new one.

In some cases (see: the current day GOP), it doesn’t even have to involve emergency powers. The mere threat of losing ordinary governing powers is enough for them to invent increasingly hysterical crises, in an attempt to whip up support in spite of their increasingly unpopular agenda.