• for Republicans.

That's one part of it. This is a good read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/america-is-not-a-democracy/550931/

“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

The worst part about all of this is, imo, we've known what the problems are for so long now, but nothing is getting fixed and the rot is apparent. I grew up in America, but seeing what it is becoming from the outside is heartbreaking.

I would've added,

"If money didn't influence elections, why are people spending so much on them?"

He has done a pretty solid job, and has passed some good legislation. If it weren't for this whole funding Israel's horrific war crime thing, I'd have no qualms giving him more time to clean shit up.

Not voting for the bigger evil has been the way it has been for much longer than you think. And it is on the voters. believe it or not it is actually the voters fault (the non voters fault) that it is this way. As It was also on the voters to do candidate nomination. So you can’t excuse your first neglect and then complain it’s ‘too much’ now when it is all the way at the the election phase and you just now woke up to complain you hate who was nominated for the election. So yeah it is on the voters. This part always is. It’s like a manager hiring a shit person because they didn’t bother to do a background check and then complaining ‘it’s too much responsibility’ when the shit hiree starts toxifying the work place. It’s not just a bad employee to make that situation. It’s bad manager. So voting public are just as much to blame for making this a shit show.

And still, half of America probably is like: "don't threaten me with good times".

One big lesson from Trump's presidency was that many of the rules we thought constrained politicians were only "Gentlemen's Agreements." They held up because everyone agreed to abide by them. When Trump walked in, refused to abide by them, and wasn't immediately struck by the political equivalent to lightning from heaven, all the politicians on the right decided that they could toss those pesky rules aside also.

Except he's not running, and is too old to run again. So do the next best thing and listen to what he's fucking saying. This is not a joke.

It survived four years of him and will survive four more.

Because he had no fucking idea what he was doing and no plan. That mistake won't be made a second time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

How is this a counter to what he said? The second-most democratic country in the world isn't the most democratic either, it'd still be a bad thing for it to lose its democracy

America isn't even the most democratic country in the Americas, but that's clearly not the point they're making.

If the title was "...end of world democracy" you'd have a point but given how much fascistic rhetoric and policy has increased around the world since trunpism it's fair to say many countries are following the US lead here.

Yeah so maybe lets not let the Republicans fick it up even worse.

Trump and Biden are so similar!

I literally can’t tell the difference between a guy who says he will be a dictator and one that doesn’t!!!

Not exactly a hard choice. Either vote for fascism, or dont. Given the choice, which we still have, I think I'll vote against fascism, thanks. Unless you would like to give us an amazing third choice in this situation?

I'd call it a "flawed democracy." The ideals behind it were sound, but the execution left much to be improved upon. And we've made many improvements (though we still have a ways to go).

Still, even a flawed democracy is preferable to Dictator Trump.