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Except that everyone can see that the US is capable of putting this kind of government into power, and could do so again and again.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 9mo ago
Except that everyone can see that the US is capable of putting this kind of government into power, and could do so again and again.
- rstuart4133 9mo agoExactly. The fixes that would go some way to restore my trust are changed to the mechanisms surrounding the democratic process. Things like no more gerrymander, get rid of allowing corporations influencing the voting by flooding the system with money, somehow fix social media every ad is seen by everyone rather than allowing personalised lies be shown to specific voters, fix your electronic voting systems to a maintenance man with a screwdriver can't make new votes pop into existence (as happened once), stop disenfranchising voters - even to the extend of implementing compulsory voting. The distortions the USA allows now to the democratic process are beyond belief. Oh, and a system that allows a politician to incite a mob to attack the sitting parliament, and get away without punishment, then pardon the perps is a joke.
- UncleMeat 9mo agoAnd the opposition party has proven itself to be unable to take actions necessary to prevent this sort of thing. The democrats could have used the Biden administration as an opportunity to try Trump for his crimes and establish new boundaries on the power of the president. Instead they just hoped he would vanish into the night and left space for his return. If the dems win in 2026 and 2028, what is there to stop a return to fascism and further collapse in 2032?