"I think the majority of Americans (including left-wing voters) have not fully grasped the fact that our standing in the world will not recover in our lifetimes.
Even if we elected two full-term Democrats in a row, it wouldn't change the perception of the rest of the world. Because the rest of the world has discovered we do not have a system that prevents our nation from pivoting 180º toward authoritarianism when a madman is elected."
- Tony Rush
Its not just the US. Corporations only behave well because the public would shun them if they behaved badly.
Same with politicians. If they don't have to worry about voters because they've brainwashed them into a cult, they do whatever the hell they want.
trump is stupid but has smart, evil people telling him how to dismantle the us govt, checks and balances etc. those people have vested interest in democracy being destroyed.
This can happen to any country.
The constitution was created on the assumption that voters would never elect someone like trump.
I think that true democracy has been gnawed away at over time by the obscenely rich and by corporations, so that people were vulnerable to a shyster like trump.
If the only options on the ballot are 'shit' and 'shitter', is that a real democracy?
If the media is full of pro-oligarch bias or conspiracy theories, how are people to correctly assess where to use their vote?
It's not about Executive Orders... EO do not have force of law. Congress decides what will be law. It's the SYSTEM. That needs to burn to the ground and die before it can be rebuilt. Right now it's slowly asphyxiating...
Is that still true, in practice? trump issues hundreds of EO's, most of which are unchallenged. The ones which are challenged, will have the challenge overturned in his stacked supreme court. Or he will ignore judges orders. Most of what was 'the law' was upheld in a system which assumed that the rest of the system was functioning properly. trump breaks the system purposefully so that it can't stop him, can't hold anyone to account. Even murderers.
USA is lawless now
Yes it is. The law hasn't changed. As it stands 100% of his EOs would be instantly erased by the next (dem) potus.
trump's already saying that the midterm elections shouldn't be held, which in trump-world means that he won't hold them if at all possible. He's just testing the maga base to make sure they won't dump him over it and the maga fake news peddlers will have the bogus justifications prepared.
I don't think the elections will be held, or they won't be fair. trump is a putin wannabe. russia has never had a free and fair election - look at what putin did to navalny.
Yes, too many people are asleep at the wheel. For ex: Citizens United would never have passed in other countries.
From there the error just kept on getting bigger. Since the US is one of the only country that's never been occupied, they have no idea what that entails. Different story.
France had the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protesting everyday for years...the media ignored the huge ongoing protests.
The UK will elect Nigel Farage as leader - a racist grifter who will eagerly do the fascist bidding of trump, musk etc. He may be inconvenienced by our political system, but will do his worst - we'll see. There are already extreme right wing brownshirt groups *training* here. Some tried to burn asylum seekers alive last summer, with massive public support.
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