US democracy is dead. None of the elected democrats are calling it for what it is because if they say the system is broken they will lose their authority instantly.
They are pretending things are still functional so they can hang onto their power as long as possible.
Well, I have no power, so I'll call it.
February 26th, time of death....5:37pm.
......oh? Is that not what you meant? Eh, I stand by it.
Tots and pears.
Thots and beers.
I'll make a donation in its memory.
This kind of doomer speak is like a psyop to demoralize people from voting. Republicans didn't get fascist overnight
Its not "doomer" to point out you can't "reform" a system meant to benefit elites and you need to build a different system entirely.
Maybe one that benefits China and Russia more, amirite?
It quite literally is. They've convinced you they are too powerful. You've already lost.
And not a single person in this thread has a suggestion on how to move forward, just complaints that the system is irretrievably broken. Well shit, let's all crawl into a hole and die.
Criticism is only useful when paired with suggestions on how to fix. Otherwise it's griping at best.
Yep. Us fighting amongst ourselves is only to their benefit.
It's a game I avoid playing so whole I may mock those who try but endeavor to never engage with anyone that does it. Best I can hope for is to get someone to self evaluate.
Republicans didn't get fascist overnight
you’re right, it was 85 years long
No, they got fascist by doing evil shit unopposed.
Hanging from the wall in chains isn't opposition.
Um sorry to tell you this but the OG Nazis were inspired by bipartisan American policy. If anything y'all should thank your lucky stars FDR did something before you went full Heil Hitler; this was long overdue.
This is such a weird twisted way to blame America for Nazis. They looked at how America maintained a system of racism and discrimination in its legal system.
The isn't fascism, that stuff started in Italy.
It's really hard to take leftists as anything but extremists when you all use the same historical revisionism that every extremist group uses to create their in group.
Replacing one dogmatic system with a different dogmatic system is a hard sell.
They looked at how America maintained a system of racism and discrimination in its legal system.
It was... uh... a lot more than that. America didn't go fascist because their ruling class compromised during the Great Depression, but they did have all the pieces of fascism.
oh yes, by all means, own us libs by voting more nazi. Surely that will change our minds.
Two party state is the same as one party authoritarian state but with extra steps.
Sorry, but if you have to choose which very rich guy is going to control your life, it's not a democracy.
Us dual party system is very close to Chinese system, and far from democracy.
At least they get trains with their authoritarianism
I know other authoritarian regime known for trains. It was called third Reich...
Maybe there is no freedom, constant invigilation, laogai, using people as resources and selling them to multinational corporations so they can work their ass off manufacturing cheap goods for western corporations, but at least there are more trains. Absurdism maxing
I was really hoping Hitler 4 Prez meant a potential investment in rail, as the silver-lining. But nah, can't even get that.
A lot of people figure they would rather be the torturer than the people chained to the wall. And thats as far as their thinking on the matter goes.
You know, getting better sharpening stones ensures a less painful death. It's a victory in itself, when you think about it 
The problem is the MAGAts did it to the Republican party, so now we think we can do it to Democrats.
Repeat after me SIX MORE YEARS! SIX MORE YEARS!
Sure, once I was young and impulsive, I wore every conceivable pin. Even went to socialist meetings. Learned all the old union hymns. But I've grown older and wiser, And that's why I'm turning you in! So loveme, love me, love me, I'm a libral.
Why does Larry Fine have Moe Howard hanging from a wall?
Eh, I'm sure creating a third party in the US isn't going to be any easier.
was always their boy?
even when was "a rebel"; "an outsider"?
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