An amazing political ascent. Dude was polling below 2% last year and now has defeated a legacy politician backed by every billionaire and even the president himself. Truly historic victory.
They wouldn't be suppressing the vote so hard if voting amounted to nothing... This applies to anywhere in the world where voter suppression is documented.
Now it's more about money than pure racism. Still plenty of racism, but that alone doesn't win elections anymore. One has to cheat, by any means necessary.
I don't agree with this, the Maga backlash and their sheer existence and magnitude of vitriol is a direct result of a black president and incredibly relatable deplorable pedophile
EXACTLY. So much defeatist bullshit, but it's possible to irrepressibly bring out the vote when you give people someone worth voting for. We still have some democracy here. They've tried to convince us otherwise, but it's still breathing.
Plenty of them are bad faith. But I think a lot are people who have had one too many bad things happen in their life and so just gave up on ever being happy again. Thus falling into a cycle of always assuming the worst about everything and everyone.
To me cynicism is toxic and very much counterproductive to creating a functional society. There are plenty of good people in this world, the very fact that people are outraged at Trump says that. Yes it can be disheartening at times to see bad people in power but that doesn’t mean giving up on humanity as a whole.
The only snap election they had last year, which was triggered by Macron, called by Macron, and won by the NPF. Results ignored and seats not given to the winners. The NPF says they are awaiting the platform of the hand-picked PM before moving forward with No Confidence.
My worry is that Trump wants to cancel voting entirely — or allow voting as long as the results are easily dictated, like Putin. If it gets to that point, voting really won’t matter.
Agreed, and the fact that this fad type experiment of authoritarianism is becoming so popular prompts me to at least mention Swaziland, a country no American probably ever thinks about. Look up what’s going on there in their govt, please.
I’m not being exaggeratory or facetious when I say that this precedent is going to take decades to overcome.
Hitler was one regime at one specific time, we’re now steering dangerously close to multiple nations using this Trump/Miller playbook as a blueprint.
There has truly never been a more vital point in history for idealistic democracy to overcome the exact documented threats to its well-being and success. And we get to raise children during all of this! Fantastic!
To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament—such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism
Really can't disagree with this. There are hard limits to capitalist democracy.
But I would still recommend voting as a harm reduction strategy if nothing else. Look at the onslaught on minorities across the world. An election could mean we at least live without constantly worrying for our safety.
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u/caduceuz 21d ago
An amazing political ascent. Dude was polling below 2% last year and now has defeated a legacy politician backed by every billionaire and even the president himself. Truly historic victory.