This article was posted shortly before the election but everything in there is still true and seeing his appointees perhaps worse than predicted.
That headline though. My inner pedant just cannot leave it alone. Democracy is like Nature. It does not care about you or me or Trump. It will continue to exist as an idea no matter what he does. Other countries will even continue to use it.
This is written as if the election were still in the future. We’re going in, and it’s going to be hell. This is the loadout selection screen before the match starts. We need to be thinking of ways we can bolster our communities and defend ourselves.
This is written as if the election were still in the future
Because it was at the time
We live in an era where democracies once considered “consolidated” — meaning so secure that they couldn’t collapse into authoritarianism — have started to buckle and even collapse.
Literally everytime a society acts like authoritarianism isn’t a threat…
You’ll never guess what shows up.
It’s a constant fight, it will literally never be over. But over and over, all it takes is 2 or 3 generations for people to think it was really over last time.
A huge part of the issue is writing them all off as evil monsters. The leaders always are. But their supporters are almost always desperate people who think they’re doing the right thing.
To truly keep it at bay, we need a society where everyone has enough to live comfortably so they’re not desperate and looking for scapegoats to blame. It would solve the vast amount of local crime as well. We focus on making prison worse than poverty, but no one would choose prison over a comfortable life.
It would be easier to believe they think they are doing the right thing if they weren’t so excited about all the people they want to hurt.
Because they believe the people they’re going to hurt are hurting others worse…
There is nothing new about what is happening.
I didn’t say there was anything new about it. People are, and always have been, capable of monstrous evil. It is normal human behavior, but that doesn’t make it any less vile.
I’m sorry I can’t explain this in a way you can understand
We going down the downvote pipe together, man. I know what you meant.
Reported as a duplicate from 3 weeks ago:
https://lemmy.world/post/21605389
Allowing this for now as the discussion following a Trump win has a different context than hypotheticals from before a Trump win.
For example:
Before the election Trump was still claiming he knew nothing of Project 2025.
AFTER the election, his nominee to run the FCC is the guy who WROTE the FCC chapter of Project 2025.
I’m very sorry, I tried to use the search function prior to posting to make sure it wasn’t already posted. I don’t know if it was because I made a mistake or if it was because I searched based on the URL instead of the title but for some reason I didn’t receive any results.
Generally, I’d just pick the most unusual word from the headline, search for that, and sort by “New”. In this case “Extinction”.
Meh, it died long ago for marginalized people, it’s just catching up to white people now.
Nations rise and fall. Its fine. Eventually dictatorships fall. The climate, however…
Theres no time…
posted under : no shit
So we should stage an insurrection to prevent him from taking power right?
Right?!
Oh, no, we’re gonna just act like this isn’t an existential threat like you’re saying.
So why should I believe you when you say something is a threat?
Preach. If everyone who wrote about the end of democracy actually believed what they were saying, this wouldn’t be getting downvoted. If anyone who wrote articles like this actually believed it, these would be calls to action, not liberal hand wringing.
If people actually do believe this, and in response sit there doing nothing, they are cowards. Plain and simple. If you think this is the end of democracy, what are gonna do… vote democracy back? Ya’ll don’t, you know how I know ya’ll don’t? You aren’t doing anything about it, and you won’t.
Like fuck off with this ridiculous, inflammatory shit. It already lost the election and both houses, maybe focus on figuring out how to win a fucking election once everyone realizes these idiots can’t actually govern in 2 years, again!
Not even going to act like this isn’t a good idea.
Rationalizing it to be a BETTER insurrection than what he already tried won’t work. That would trigger another civil war and set the country back a hundred years.
Fair game though: he’s going to absolutely ruin the economy and the country anyway, so…🤷
All the organizing bullshit people are running hopium for won’t work for these people. We are LITERALLY living the same politics of the Nazi and fascist rise in Europe. You won’t turn it around until other people step in to start a world war and declare these people insane. Unfortunately the world powers right now that would step in are most interested in elimination of the US. Bad spot to be in.
It’s an extension level threat.
that’s in four years when he tries to stay in office.
Oh ok cool, let’s get right on that then.
If only there were a way the opposition party could have done something about this like, I don’t know, campaigning on a platform of better living conditions for the working class, more jobs and better pay instead of doubling down again and again and again on identity politics.
Like what, helping people buy houses to live in?
The owners of this country don’t want that.
And the Democratic Neoliberal Committee serves them extremely well
