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As a Canadian looking from the outside in, it really does seem to be trending in that direction… any further Republican wins will mean the end of democracy, with America sliding into a ChristoFascist Autocracy.
I fear for my American neighbours, but we have similar problems up here; we just happen to be a decade or so behind you folk.
Land of the free capital
Unless you are broke ass. Then no capital for you
can you really call this two party system a democracy
No. Did you know they wanted to send international observers for the last election because of worries that the US no longer adheres to democratic process? They were turned away, of course.
You know, like in third world nations and dictatorships.
The democracy in the US is not considered a "real" democracy where I come from
In political science terms it's what we call a "flawed democracy," meaning that it has some but not all the features of an actual democracy.
PP is absolutely taking notes.
Also Canadian. We are certainly on the same path. It feels like everyone around our part of the country is a "fuck Trudeau" type that just clearly wants the 1950's to return and women where they should be. As a very liberal but not so political person it's kinda scary.
If you remember when Trudeau was first elected, they called him the Selfie King or some idiotic shit like that. Like, the fact that he took photos with young people is somehow a reason to hate him. The propaganda and astroturfing has been ongoing for 8 years. It's called "foreign interference".
A republican win does not mean the end of democracy, just like it didn't last time.
It actually potentially does. I'd suggest looking into Project 2025. If you're not familiar with it, it's a political battle plan being put forward by a bunch of hard-right think tanks with substantial connections which would effectively establish a theocracy in the US. My understanding is that part of the plan hinges on the president basically removing anyone who can stop him and replace them with sycophants (which they're currently populating a list of). The idea is that if they're able to remove enough people, they can do whatever they want. They don't need a majority in the supreme court or house of representatives because they can just ignore them; the sycophants will follow whatever orders they're given regardless of what the house or court says.
To put it another way, they've realized the house and scotus only have power if that power is respected; if they remove anyone in-between the president and the other branches who'd say "no" and replace them with yes-men, then there's no one to stop the president from doing whatever he wants. That said, I'd be willing to bet the moment the president says "no" to the scotus is the moment they'll make a show of how much power they truly have, but it'll get really bloody if that happens.
You know Lincoln told the supreme court to fuck off right? Was he "dictator" was it the end of democracy? Were people like you reading bathroom scrawling and screeching about project 1862?
That was a completely different situation ENTIRELY. Lincoln's Republican party resembles nothing of what the GOP is.
There was also a civil war under Lincoln. Additionally, last time I checked Lincoln also wasn't trying to overthrow the entire government and replace it with a theocracy. He was trying to abolish slavery. Reducing the country's authoritarianism is kinda the opposite of what Trump & Co. are trying to achieve.
That is such a poor comparison that I'm seriously wondering if you're trolling. If so, 4/10, you got me respond but your comparison is so poor that it left me questioning whether or not it was genuine.
Just like it didn't last time because we managed to avert the attempt? You're right, let's give the same people another go, I'm sure they've given up on that idea by now.
Avert it how, by voting him out? Which he followed by stepping down?
People say his fighting the results in courts are proof of him trying to overthrow, but it's not, it's proof that he used the system correctly, in the legal ways he could. He may still claim to have won, but his actions are not that of a dictator attempting to overthrow democracy.
That being said, it's still not clear who the republican nominee will end up being.
Fuck off bot.
Well we know where you were january 6th
I was in my bedroom studying for my exams. :)
You mustn't be a political science major, that's for sure.
You're right, I design substations. :) do you think political science majors are less likely to fall for or spew propaganda? Or be biased?
Project 2025.