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Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?
by happytiger 3y ago
Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?
- rosmax_1337 3y ago"They" don't believe in democracy anyway, they like to make people think they believe in democracy, but really they're like any other despots around the world.
- christoph 3y agoI think they absolutely do. The more serious question is, do the general public realise?
- makingstuffs 3y agoIt’s a feature, not a bug - Them, probably
- treeman79 3y ago[flagged]
- Rexogamer 3y agowe are currently under a right wing government whose media friends smeared their only real opposition as... a dangerous communist who would destroy the country. their main opposition now are copying more and more of their policies. they are not, in fact, communists and are pretty far away from ever being left of centre.
- PKop 3y agoA Right wing government would stop mass immigration and not promote leftist social values as current UK government/establishment does. Far away from right wing, certainly not nationalist in any way.
- Rexogamer 3y agoare you trying to suggest that the tories are "promoting leftist social values"? considering their mediocre at best treatment of minority groups, [citation needed] also one of their most controversial bills would lead to "illegal" immigrants being sent to Rwanda skewed American perspectives aside, I genuinely fail to see how anyone would interpret them as anything left of centre-right
- blipvert 3y ago> skewed American perspectives aside, I genuinely fail to see how anyone would interpret them as anything left of centre-right And this is their prestige. At least the one-nation Tories can see through it, even though they were expelled in the 2019 putsch.
- datadeft 3y agoI think this is tribal view of the word. Reality is much more complex than left vs right. The political elite is pushing this false dichotomy too.
- blippitybleep 3y agoI’m not sure why a conservative government would want to implement Marxism or where Marx mentioned censorship of this sort.
- blipvert 3y agoDidn’t you know? Marx was a hedge fund banker too! </s>, obviously…
- blipvert 3y agoOh, pity the (faux?) naive child who has been brought up on a diet of McCarthyism. You’re so scared of reds under the bed that you can’t see what the (increasingly far-)right wing are doing to you.
- datadeft 3y agoBased on what? Where is extreme right wing you are talking about?
- blipvert 3y agoWake up. Quick. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-holocaust-footage-joan-salter-b2262516.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braver...
- cycomanic 3y agoPretty much everywhere? The tories are shifting further right. In the US the republicans have been on a path straight to totalitarism (some of their members are calling to forbid Democrats from voting when they move states), Israel, many European countries have growing far right parties who are typically just a thin layer of legitimacy on top of far right ideology (take the AFD in Germany or the FN in France who have significant contacts with Neonazi activists).
- mc32 3y agoCommunism and Fascism are solely vehicles to and end. Those who govern desire more control no matter what system gets them there. “Whatever works!”
- blipvert 3y agoPrecisely. And if you can convince your rabid supporters that you aren’t “the other lot” they will let you do unspeakable things.
- PKop 3y agoA right wing, especially a "far" right wing, government would have mass deportations, stop immigration, promote nationalist ideology, and not allow let alone themselves push things such as pride and other left wing social values. There doesn't exist any single example of this in the Anglo-sphere, nor the UK itself.
- ketralnis 3y agoCommunism, Marxism, Fascism, and other "everything I don't like is ____" names aren't the same thing as totalitarianism. You can tell because this is a right-wing government trying to do this while Communism and Marxism are left-wing ideologies.
- gorwell 3y agoNo doubt they will sell it by saying the opposite. "Online harms are extremely dangerous to our democracy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYj11qWb-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYj11qWb-M
- happytiger 3y agoYour username was made for this comment.
- Rexogamer 3y agoconsidering their other actions (including requiring voter ID despite very few cases of voter fraud in the last election - a move which just so happens to favour older voters (who are more likely to vote for the tories) and which harms younger voters (who are more likely to go elsewhere)), I think they do
- mc32 3y agoIt seems that “government” the noun, tends toward autocracy and that democracy is a curious detour that is fun while it perseveres but it looks like many governments are tending less democratic. We’re not seeing this only in despotic systems or right wing or left wing, all of them are becoming more authoritarian. France, Canada, the US as well as the usual suspects.
- RobotToaster 3y agoI'm sure the oligarchs in charge are fully aware.
- BrotherBisquick 3y agoAn exhaustive list of leftists who care about democracy: