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The American government is the longest continually existing "regime" in the world. Unlike it, other governments do not conduct (serious) attempts to overthrow i
by Matl 2y ago
The American government is the longest continually existing "regime" in the world. Unlike it, other governments do not conduct (serious) attempts to overthrow it and so it has the most secure institutions. Therefore it can afford to absorb more disagreement with it than other, much shorter-lived regimes can.
This is why there can be a 'debate'.
But as soon as any such debate threatens to actually change something, cops are deployed to beat people up, protesters are arrested and harassed and of course they are constantly smeared in the media.
That is the real difference as far as I can see it.
Don't get me wrong, I am part of the Western world and I'd like it to be true what you say, but why do things like this[1] happen then?
1 - https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2024/04/cancelled-germany-yanis-varoufakis-israel-palestine https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2024/04/cancelled-germany...
- jemmyw 2y ago> The American government is the longest continually existing "regime" in the world I'm fairly sure the regime in the UK has lasted longer, technically. You could say that the laws that enabled the current system came into place in 1707 with the Acts of Union, although the modern interpretation took time to come into effect. You could also argue that the supremacy of parliament and thus the beginning of the current regime started in 1688. The problem with continuous is that things do change over time, and the American system has also evolved since it was conceived.
- Matl 2y agoThat's arguing technicalities, and missing the larger point. Whatever "changes" happen within the US (or the UK) system do not fundamentally uproot the civil servants or the permanent bureaucracy in the West, thus the insinuations remain stable. Certainly more so than anywhere else in the world. Any changes are minuscule in the grand scheme of things.