• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    What is so fucked that the US isn’t an anomaly. Authoritarianism has been on the rise since the 90s and we don’t really have any more true democracies. The crazy right-wing jackasses that people back in 2000 and 2005 thought were just kooks and nutjobs are now 100% mainstream and they’re taking over their respective countries… We are not in a good place.

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      2 hours ago

      we don’t really have any more true democracies

      What’s a True Democracy and when did we originally have it?

      Is this where we blink past Jim Crow and put blinders on during the Nixon/Reagan years to pretend popular politics was a real thing prior to Clinton?

      Or are we going to claim 1976 was the only truly free and fair election in IS history?

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        56 minutes ago

        Let me reword that. We have no liberal democracies as we thought of them in the 90s.

        Best part of all this is there are still probably people who think that leftists are the anti-democratic ones…