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The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’
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Given that elections are the defining feature of a democracy, I think it would be prudent to wait until after the mid term elections to start proclaiming the demise of American democracy. Granted, the Republicans are trying their best with mass disenfranchisement, but it remains to be seen how effective they will be.
But there's already such a long list of laws and rules he just ignores and seemingly gets away with. It's madness.
Let's also not forget all the broken campaign finance election laws that preceded his win. No accountability followed because the winner keeps the spoils
And let's not forget that THE LOSER of the election still gets a BILLION DOLLARS in their coffers (that we know of).
Imagine what the spoils are for the winner; we'll never know the extent of it.
They ALL get away with breaking a long list of laws and rules, that's what makes the election of Trump possible!
Back in the 1970s, the FBI would bust reps for accepting cash bribes (Abscam). So, the reps made bribery legal with the help of the supreme court. Now Super PACs are the way. Highest bidder wins.
Giggle. We've been playing "wait and see" for a decade now.
Elections don't solve this. We've seen that high-level Democrats are no different than high-level Republicans. Biden refused to investigate the Epstein files, he refused to prosecute Trump, and he refused to target gerrymandering/election interference.
There's no version of this where the old America magically returns. That's the same logic trap that ushered in this entire mess. There are plenty of MAGA who truly believe that they are shaking up the system and that just one more election will solve everything.
THIS. IS. THE. FUTURE.
We are living in it. The trajectory is set. We didn't stop militarization of the police when they stepped on our rights. We didn't stop data collection when we were warned. We didn't stop gross financial mismanagement, corporate influence, gerrymandering and all the other things that make a democracy work.
We aren't living in a fascist takeover. That happened years ago. We are living in its aftermath. We are frogs in a simmering pot, watching the bubbles float past us and wondering how to turn off the heat. It doesn't matter now, the damage is done. The momentum takes control.
We don't have actual "elections"
We have two private organizations (Ds and Rs) who have through law crushed all possible opposition.
So we get two candidates to chose from, both curated by the billionaire "donors" running each party. This is not a conspiracy, see Super PACs for more.
They won't cancel the "elections", there's absolutely no need.