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What is your line in the sand?

Edit: thank you all for your responses. I think it's important as an American we take your view points seriously. I think of a North Korean living inside of North Korea. They don't really know how bad it is because that is all hidden from them and they've never had anything else. As things get worse for Americans it's important to have your voices because we will become more and more isolated.

Even the guy who said, "lol." Some people need that sort of sobering reaction.

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[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 4 points 11 hours ago

Serious answer : I am not living there, have no idea how to compare, nor whether the court system works as a safeguard.

Troll answer In democracy you have the right to healthcare and education, so it's been a while it isn't

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 7 hours ago

I don't recognise the current American regime as a valid government. Just like I don't recognise the Israeli occupation force as a valid state.

It's not remotely binding or even meaningful to anyone but myself of course. But hey, nothing matters these days.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Ignoring court orders, and "fake national emergency declarations" to create war and international extortion and remove rights and citizenships for deportations crossed the line. The voter suppression/rigging that won election for Trump is also clearly anti-democratic, but anti-democratic as usual. Media/oligarchy/Israel influence/disinformation might not make for an ideal democracy, but also "democracy as usual".

The big problem with the world is the US empire's manufacturing of hatred/war against "those who are less democratic than us and our colonies" Corruption of democracy in US, who can cheaply manipulate democracy in its colonies, means that you don't have functional democracy either. US praises the most violently oppressive apartheid ethnostates suspending federal and local elections as great democracies if they support US wars. There is something wrong when the most important issue of your government is to increase divisiveness/threats to the US's enemies when the US unjustifiably threatens you, and that thrills you as right track.

So, democracy is simply not working at bringing progressiveness and shared prosperity, or even the most basic understanding of humanist/national interests, to those who say they love it so much. This is global collapse level of delusion. Nations doing best economically are those distancing themselves from US colonial control.

The more objective measure of "good government" is control against oligarchist pillaging, while having pluralism/sustainability, and economic constructiveness. US approved democracies are failing hard on these metrics. Warmongering based on "blanket, evidence free, refusal to accept election results when non-CIA candidate wins" is not the democratic/liberal ideal you think it is.

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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

A demo-crazy.

Note that it is not democracy what Trumpeltier is destroying at the moment. It is the functioning of the state. This will take so many years to rebuild, if possible at all.

[–] RambaZamba@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

That's a retorical question, isn't it?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 8 hours ago

Shit I live inside the US and I barely consider it a democracy.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

yeah of course. it's still a corrupted and broken democracy.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

For the time being, sure. I dint think democracy is a binary. Democracy doesn't imply a fair system or universal suffrage or a system where power is split.

Like for example the Vatican is a absolute monarchy and also a democracy.

[–] ACbHrhMJ@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Yes, Americans voted for this administration

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Kinda. On how the voting process works in general, I consider it a worse democracy than Brazil, since nearly anything only gets voted if there's enough lobby money being thrown at it, not to mention the astronomic campaign costs. Each state having different voting laws makes the democracy weaker

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yes, but hardly an example for a good one. Besides that, it has become a bad ally, if it even is one at this time, and a factor of uncertainty.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on the outcome of the next election.

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net -1 points 6 hours ago

An American, but it never was a democracy. It's always been a republic with a few democratic mechanisms.

Which is good, IMO, or we would've gotten here much sooner. Populism is where democracies go to die, and the mechanisms of a representative republic help keep your average idiots from collectively voting us there.

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