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Be honest.
Power is freely given
They stay in power because their civilians are just as psychopathic as they are, and enjoy genocide as a treat.Only Netanyahu was elected democratically of the three…
All three were democratically elected. Even Putin, before he dismantled Russian democracy.
There was no democracy in Russia at any point in time. Putin was placed in charge to restore USSR, and he didn't win by chance.
North Korea also has elections, so does Iran, Belarus, the difference is that we always know who will win.
I'm not sure where you got that from, but no, Putin won three* free and fair elections, one as PM and two as president.
*My memory is iffy so it could be that his reelection as president wasn't a fair election, but the preceding two were.
Simply untrue?
The us system is so wildly undemocratic with its two party, first past the post, electoral college that definitionally it cannot be considered a democracy!
We may never know what happen and happened in russia! Boris Yeltsin, the president before Putin, literally disappeared for weeks then suddenly reappeared next to Putin to hold speeches… And you are telling me that Putin was elected democratically for the first round?
We can get into the philosophy of it, but Trump was as democratically elected as any other president in US history.
Until you can provide evidence to the contrary, yes.
-Yea, which is not democratic at all as the us is definitionally not a democracy!
-It literally has a wikipedia page(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin%27s_rise_to_power)… Being oblivious does not equate to being a sceptic!
You forgot the massive part played by manufactured consent. Attacking education and massively buying mass media, makes it that elections become what they are now. An illusion of choice. Freedom of information is a central pillar of democracy, you can't make educated choices if you're not educated.
Which goes back to point one: Civilians enjoy being manufactured consent. They enjoy attacking education, controlling media, and maintaining the corrupt dual systems of elections. The illusion of choice, is a choice, many still decide to uphold. Anti-intellectualism is core aspect of authoritarianism, and a pillar of seizing the thoughts of the population. You can't make informed choices without indoctrination centers in guise of education.
They can't enjoy it because they don't know it's happening, that's literally why it's called manufactured consent. It's not real consent.
Yet, conservatives are fine firing teachers, ruining their budgets, burning books, denying diversity, digressively victimizing, etc. and consent to illiteracy, being conned, and conning others.
Fanaticism is a choice, and they choose it, every time.
Maybe calling it willful manufacturing their demise might be closer, but consent they willfully partake.
That's a consequence and a symptom, not the cause. The people manufacturing the consent and the one being manipulated into it are different groups of people. One is choosing and consenting, the other ones are more victims than anything else. It doesn't excuse the heinous shit some of them do or believe, but it explains it.
The cause is choosing to be manufactured consent. Choosing that manufacturing is the consequence we keep revisiting. If the ones being manipulated stopped to think “maybe we keep choosing wrong” they wouldn't be in position where manufacturing consent would exist, they would instead choose to simply collaborate with despots that happen to be corrupt old white men.