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Those democratic processes stopped working decades ago. They're marginally more effective than the "close door" button on an elevator, but not by much. Everyone
by kmeisthax 2y ago
Those democratic processes stopped working decades ago. They're marginally more effective than the "close door" button on an elevator, but not by much. Everyone in Congress is either too bought or too old to listen to you. The Presidency is a glorified popularity contest that the Democratic Party[0] has figured out how to consistently lose with razor-thin margins. And the judicial branch was never democratically accountable to begin with.
Elon was never going to follow democratic processes, that's not how moneybag men think. Do you think he ran X.com, PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, or Twitter as democracies? Hell no. Musk fires or buys-out people who disagree with him. Same with the healthcare CEO Luigi assassinated. There is no process in the current version of America that would allow the people to counter the power of billionaires. The people have been routed.
The difference between the two is that Luigi targeted a thing that actively hurts people and, in any democratic world, would have been illegal. Elon is burning down the things that stop him from hurting people.
[0] Which isn't democratic; nor is the Republican Party republican. Canada and Australia's Liberal Parties aren't liberal, either. Hell, Japan has a two-fer: a Liberal Democratic Party that's neither liberal nor democratic.