It won’t matter. They’ll vote along party lines, and Democrats refuse to play dirty. Democracy ends in a week.
Edit: people are wondering if I’m referring to specifically American democracy. No, I am not. Trump and his oligarchy have no respect for borders and norms, such as NATO, and will be interfering in any democracy that gets in his way of total domination. It’s Nazi Germany, but with iPhones, Teslas, and Facebook to soften the beachhead.
Eh… it’s hubris to equate America with democracy. Democracy will do just fine, just perhaps not here. Not being pedantic, I just think it’s time to start thinking like a global citizen. This place may be truly lost for a time, but the world spins on. Perhaps we’ll be the cautionary tale for the next generation.
I don’t think they’re equating the USA with democracy. I think it’s pretty clear that they’re impliedly saying “democracy [in the United States] ends in a week”. Nobody is questioning the health of European, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, South American, Australian, or Kiwi democracy—yet.
Wasnt Korea’s impeached president just arrested a few hours ago? Didnt Brazil just indict their former president just a couple months ago? Both for attempting to topple their own democracies? Didnt anyone notice that France was on the verge of electing a neonazi a few years ago, or that Germany might actually do that next month? If you arnt questioning the health of global democracy it just means you havent looked.
Of course I’ve looked. But everywhere I do, I see democracy coming out of the ring victorious. Bloodied and bruised, yes, but not beaten. Only in the US has the fascist won absolute control while the legal system has utterly failed to hold him accountable for his crimes in any meaningful manner.
It won’t matter. They’ll vote along party lines, and Democrats refuse to play dirty. Democracy ends in a week.
Edit: people are wondering if I’m referring to specifically American democracy. No, I am not. Trump and his oligarchy have no respect for borders and norms, such as NATO, and will be interfering in any democracy that gets in his way of total domination. It’s Nazi Germany, but with iPhones, Teslas, and Facebook to soften the beachhead.
Eh… it’s hubris to equate America with democracy. Democracy will do just fine, just perhaps not here. Not being pedantic, I just think it’s time to start thinking like a global citizen. This place may be truly lost for a time, but the world spins on. Perhaps we’ll be the cautionary tale for the next generation.
I don’t think they’re equating the USA with democracy. I think it’s pretty clear that they’re impliedly saying “democracy [in the United States] ends in a week”. Nobody is questioning the health of European, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, South American, Australian, or Kiwi democracy—yet.
Wasnt Korea’s impeached president just arrested a few hours ago? Didnt Brazil just indict their former president just a couple months ago? Both for attempting to topple their own democracies? Didnt anyone notice that France was on the verge of electing a neonazi a few years ago, or that Germany might actually do that next month? If you arnt questioning the health of global democracy it just means you havent looked.
Of course I’ve looked. But everywhere I do, I see democracy coming out of the ring victorious. Bloodied and bruised, yes, but not beaten. Only in the US has the fascist won absolute control while the legal system has utterly failed to hold him accountable for his crimes in any meaningful manner.