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Why don't the soldiers just take over? Because they can't; more power in the US and in modern democratic republics, lies Constitutionally in the hands of the people who vote and they wouldn't stand for it. Voting is how they retain and demonstrate that power. A system of checks and balances ensures that the power is never too concentrated in one place. A violation of that system is obvious, and intolerable. As long as the government is representative there is no interest in challenging it. Although it is hard to see, society routinely beats government in actual power, and government changes to meet society's demands.
I submit as proof, the last 224 years. Quod erat fuckin demonstrandum.
So, what would prevent that from happening in your system?
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