American democracy didn’t survive the first month of this year.
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I’d argue it died in November ‘24
More like November 2000
Shit, it’s basically all Reagan’s fault if we wanna get down to it.
Well, that, and Nixon, and Milton Friedman. But yeah.
Agreed
It died March 4, 1789
It's the political version of 'Weekend at Bernie's' .... America killed democracy a long time ago and they've been parading around the dead body for years pretending that everything is OK.
As the years go by it's getting harder and harder to get people to ignore the rotting stinking corpse they keep dressing up in American flags and uniforms.
American democracy didn't survive the constitution that only allowed rich white males any voice.
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Who says it survived the last war in the middle east?
American democracy is an oxymoron
It died on November 5th, 2024. We are just in the embers.
To be fair it had been on life support for decades.
Yeah this is the thing. Trump isn't where things went south, but he sure accelerated it. In a working democracy, he would have been laughed out of the room. But decades of neocon politics have deteriorated the American society so much in so many aspects that he got elected
Yup. Thanks, non-voters.
'You mean my inaction at a time when I could have stopped the end of democracy actually ended democracy? Must be bidens fault somehow!' - dumbass American voters
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Which is unfortunately quite poetic. Refusing to vote has ensured they will no longer be able to vote.
You mean not fixing the system won't fix the system? What am I missing here...? /s
Referring to the guy you're replying to, if it isn't clear.
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Starting from the premise we have a democracy at this point is flawed.
what democracy?
American democracy has not survived.
FIFY
Best outcome would be if Iran and the US took out each other's government, but they always seem weirdly unwilling to go after the leadership if they have an option to kill soldiers and civilians instead, even when it's clearly the leaders who pose a problem.
Have we tried arming insurgents and having them overthrow the Government? Or possibly just a little coup?
Oh. Ok nvm.
We don't need to imagine. He's doing it right now.
America has ALWAYS been an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy. The mask is dropping further down every day.
... we have democracy?
American democracy won't survive the next flu season. It's pretty fucking fragile.
American democracy was cooked in 2004 and it’s wild that anyone would pretend otherwise.
In 2000. Al Gore won that election, but Republicans cheated.
Not so fun fact: Even back then, a certain Clarence Thomas was involved in the Supreme Court decision that prevented a recount of votes in Florida (source), which would likely have resulted in Al Gore's election victory. And: Also even back then, this Supreme Justice was associated with a certain billionaire named Harlan Crow who supported him with various favors - he continues to do so to this day.
Interesting but the source don't say he would have won what I can see. Was that later established?
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I mean, that was the shot across the bow, but there was a democratic way forward. When democrats completely folded and then he was reeelected 4 years later after making every wrong decision?
There hasn’t been a nonviolent way out of the US’s far-right problem in 20 years.
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American Democracy is already dead, those stupid red hat fucks helped murder it.
We no longer Have a functioning democracy
Ah the "The invade your country and then make a movie about how it caused them PTSD" analog.
Surviving implies not yet being dead...
The other option is that they might survive, I guess. When did pure conjecture replace facts?
It's ok. It wasn't going to survive a Trump presidency anyway.
Ha!! My sides...
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