A good run? 2 years of actually peace since the us existenz is your benchmark for a good run?
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Amerikkka never had real democracy
"unelected"
he got up to stage and said he bought the fascist candidate. lots of people saw that and said "that's OK, I'll still vote red" and even more people saw that and said "that's OK, I'll still not vote". around 160 million people saw this and were OK with it. yeah he wasn't elected, but the "dictator on day one" was.
This right here.
They had a website for two years with a detailed plan. Project 2025 was widely known an people either voted for it or stayed at home. The dildo of consequences, as they say...
Did we all forget the elected one put the unelected one in power?
Democracy
Looks inside
Constitution written exclusively to protect monopoly business interests and prevent a monarchy
seems legit lol
Yeah I'm sure that giving rights to everyone (amendments are part of the Constitution!) was purely for business interests ...
Lol the democracy part didn't even start until 1965.
Even then, its more like Democracy Lite™.
Don’t blame it on just one person. He has many ~~friends~~ accomplices.
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People who believe in 250 years of democracy enable systemic racism, patriarchy, etc.
Libs, please grow up.
Democracy is when you prohibit everybody but voting except rich white slave owners!
Reminder that our founding fathers broke off because of "taxation without representation" but then denied representation for most Americans.
Women? "No say." Black people? "Wait those are people?" Native Americans? "Sure they were here first but I have money." Immigrants? "Why would I support new comers to this land my family has been here for 30 years!"
We didn't even used to vote for our senators, they were voted in by the state legislator, which you could vote for if your state allowed your kind to vote, but most places only allowed for certain people to vote.
America pretends it was a democracy, when Musk and Trump just show it was all a show and it could be toppled over at any point. Most of the laws in place for offices of power were just codes of ethics with no punishment for violation. If you did break a law, the president has never really been checked, so just break more as they figure out what to do.
It was deeply flawed but it was a democracy nevertheless. It's now a full authoritarian regime and you'll get to realize what you've lost soon enough.
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we had a good run
Did you, though?
The rich guys did, it's even getting better for them.
Democracy must be fragile af if this is all it takes to topple it
Using first-past-the-post and giving a president too much power is fragile, yes.
Proportional election and a president with much less power is far safer. Some stuff takes a while to become a law, but at least it'll be an actual agreement instead of an order.
Most good things are fragile. And with most things it just takes a few assholes to ruin it.
Democracy resisted for quite some time despite glaring problems.
See the Business Plot of 1933 that was undermined by a Medal of Honor-recipient and Major General, Smedley Butler whom they tried to recruit for the coup.
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democracy
Looks inside
oligarchy
And completely broken and idiotic and easily manipulated voting system.
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Points at SCOTUS. Electoral College. Winner-Takes-All underrepresentation. 100 years legal slavery, 100 years racial segregation. 150 years gendered voting rights.
Citizens united.
For-profit prison labour.
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How cute, OP thinks the US has been a democracy for the last 250 years.
The average age of an empire is 250 years, now were going to find out what's going to replace it.
Well, not some of us I’m sure.
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Harris actually got more votes than Biden in most of the key swing states. Can we stop this narrative of blaming anyone other than the tens of millions that actually picked Trump?
Nope. Because I do blame the third party / uncommitted crowd for sowing division, doubt, and getting in the way. We were in a burning building, and those groups were blocking the fire exits.
You're a sucker, blame anyone except the billionaires who have bought democrats and repubs alike to get us here. If you can look at the fact that we produce enough to feed 10 billion people yet people still starve, or that there is £36 TRILLION in offshore tax havens as of 2016 but can't afford basic needs for people, but it's people who voted against genocide is the problem?
Because I do blame the third party / uncommitted crowd
Blame the people who actually did something or scare away anyone from bothering at all with you guys next time?
Trump won this time by less than he lost last time
Let's stop pretending the Dems didn't run a dog shit campaign and lose a fuck ton of votes, yeah? Voting isn't obligatory, the Dems failed to get people voting for them and the reasons are multiple and have been explained in detail many times already and likely many more times in future. Blaming the people who objectively didn't cause this just shows inability to actually criticize the people they're putting up and is a dog shit deflection of blame
Right, cause without them there would have been no doubt in the democrats, surely.
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I'll be polite. That's not an accurate repository of those 250 years; the second part us alright.
"Democracy"
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