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Our presidential election is coming up this fall and we are on the ledge of losing our democracy depending on the outcome. It's kinda on our minds quite a bit.
no offence or anything, this is not some democracy superhero vs evil dictator doomsday show off. Its a bunch of political candidates up for election with different policies. Its really misleading and unhealthy to assume your world is doomed if the candidate you support is not going to win. Same as it is believing that if your candidate wins you somehow managed to accomplish a heroic deed. The hardened polarization of the 2 camps in the USA gets worse and worse each cycle.
What a disgustingly myopic and privileged take.
I love that lemmy shows upvotes and downvotes seperatly
One of the candidates literally wants to be a dictator and remove the semblance of democracy. He has already tried once (at least). They are not the same, stop spreading that lie
Curious how old you are.
For someone that's been around the block a bit there hasn't been a candidate that's been so openly authoritarian about bypassing our democracy for his whims and punishing his political opponents in decades.
2008 with Obama v McCain? Maybe you could make that argument. McCain was a patriot that loved his country even if we didn't share the same views. Not Trump though. Trump has to be stopped.
This is also just as a white guy.
If you're a women you've gone back in rights from 50 years ago.
If you're a minority Trump actively hates and oppresses you.
If you're gay Republicans actively works to disenfranchise and deny who you are.
If you're trans the meds you need are actively at risk.
One candidate did an insurrection, says explicitly he will be a dictator, and asked for a Long Knife which he was granted.
If the political posts are as common as you pretended they were then you'd know everything you just typed is fucking stupid and wrong
Wow thank you for the unsolicited opinion. Why are posting this thinking we are interested? Isn't that awfully hypocritical after your first rant?
The ethical choice would have been to treat us to your smug, privileged silence, so do try to be better next time, k? ๐
You are absolutely right (in how it should be in a functional democracy). I also think you might not be aware of how close to fascism the US is. It really is one political party very clearly saying this, and making public a plan for how to do so, which might very well work.
It absolutely does. We need to fix it very badly. And we will have 0 chance of that with the current Maga candidate if they get back into office. This time it does matter greatly to keep the self imagined god-king from getting anywhere near our presidency again if we hope to have any chance of a future reform. As soon as those votes get tallied in Nov and he is out, I'm back to burn it all till you take out the electoral college and give us better options for election choices.