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Every FREAKING day…
If it makes you feel better, everything is collapsing, not just democracy
Corporations are reporting record profits.
I would say corporations are the vultures of society, but at least vultures don’t actively poison their own ecosystems.
Scavengers like vultures are also often some of the last to die out in a mass extinction-like event.
Would be pretty cool if we didn’t let that happen time. Maybe kill them early.
Actually, fascism seems to be u on the up and up.
Fascism is inherently self-collapsing
And my coworker wonders why I have no passion for my job.
I don’t lose passion for my job because of political turmoil and the line between reality and cognitive dissonance blurring worse and worse every day.
I lose passion for working because it broadly costs several hundred dollars a day to survive and wages don’t budge and the answer from corporate is to institute a employee reward token program where you can trickle each other tiny reward points that can be redeemed for things like 50% off Doordash once a year or an extra round of drinks when you stay at a resort casino.
And both posts have identical headlines.
And everyday life has the fucking temerity to go on.
Yes, the infinite sandwich
This is genius.
Uuuuh… Should probably look up what democracy is, where it came from, and how it’s been declined.for many, many, many centuries before our time.
The general consensus is about 60% values of democratic nature works well before leaning fully into it. We have plenty of history to show us it’s shortcomings, while just as much to show us why much of it is crucial.
I’m more inclined “democracy” in this meme just means “back in my day” when things were better.
I’m confused at what this reductionist talk is aimed at. It’s always been becoming more shit to this sudden lurch towards authoritarianism is okay?
This time is particularly bad. Historians are comparing this to events 100 years or more back. In the lifetime of anyone alive now, it’s never been worse from a political perspective.
Point is, the US for example, has never been pure democracy. It has borrowed democratic traits, but it is not a democracy. The founding fathers put stops in place literally to prevent democratic behaviours, putting more power to a balanced state, rather than the people.
As an example, Adams loathed the idea of women and people without property getting to vote. These are votes toward representatives that they did not even initially get a say in. Then there’s the electoral college, the party system, etc. These are things they put in place to prevent their percieved shortcomings of democracy.
So, really, you’d say the US is showing fewer democratic values than it has in some time, but it was never a democracy.
No one ever said it was a perfectly populist direct democracy…
MAGA/Conservative/people like you seem to be trying to muddy the waters by saying “well tEcHnIcAlLy we we’ve always been a republic, not a democracy”, when both you and the audience knows it’s in bad faith and intentionally missing the broader point of what is being done now by the regime to dismantle our system of government in favor of autocratic dictatorship.
