At best this is confusing cycling the fascist drain as a repeating pattern. At worst it is apathy masquerading as insight. Fascists kill people in death camps and don’t hold democratic elections. We’ve held on this long because we’ve been paddling against the current. Millions of people stopped paddling this election. Now we’re hoping fascist incompetence clogs the drain long enough for us to get away.

We’re going to be lucky to get another election. If we still have a democracy the effects of this next Trump term will outlive the next four years.

Trump got three justices onto the Supreme Court in his first term. These aren’t going to go in and out of power. They are going to sit there until they die. Trump could get another three Supreme Court nominations confirmed in this next term. Their influence is going to shape this country for thirty years or more.

He promised to jail his political opponents. The Democratic Party might not exist in four years and if does it will probably have shifted to the right. They won’t be a moderate challenger in any sense.

An oligarchy of billionaires has rallied around Trump as dictator. Project 2025 is going to give Trump an actionable agenda and an army of loyalists in government positions to execute it for him. Republicans control the Senate and are on track to take the House. The Republicans want to shape this country for decades to come.

All of this turns the discourse around climate change on it’s head. Our models of what could happen are typically based on climate admissions staying the same or with efforts to mitigate them. Now we have an incoming administration who are going to pollute as much as possible. That’s not a repeating pattern. It’s a self-destructive process that ends with billionaires living in their apocalypse bunkers and the rest of us dead.

Is this supposed to imply causation? That part doesn’t make sense

I’d rather have an uninspiring centrist than a convicted felon and fascist tho.

But how did the great poet Mick Jagger put it? “You can’t always get what you want.”

The graph is optimistic. If Argentina is any indication, the final result is the country stuck in the mud, spinning its wheels on “the previous government failed us because it was not far right enough! I, your populist savior, will fix that by dismantling any institutions that are left!”

can I please get off the no-merry-go-round? I’m starting to get dizzy!

I appreciate that this diagram shows that many countries around the world are going through this now. Though I disagree that the centrists aren’t tackling the social problems. They’re also not tackling the economic problems.

Poland is still inaccurate, as it was when it was posted here the last time

Edit: I tried to search for my comment last time but I didn’t find it. So short summary: In Poland, an authoritarian far-right party ruled for a long time that acted heavily against the rule of law and separation of powers (they replaced their Supreme Court and discharged judges on other courts that didn’t rule as they wanted) and was very anti-democratic (they turned the national TV into a propaganda broadcast). Amid huge protests, the opposition won the election, and while it is not a very left coalition, they were pretty successful in reversing many of this horrible things, e.g. taking back control of the TV broadcast with a completely new team. They couldn’t undo everything as the president with a veto power is still from the old party but with the president elections coming soon this could change soon. And it’s generally very euphoric and awesome what happened because it was really terrible what the other party did to this country.

Argentina was fucked before the current government made changes, which are actually starting to show improvement. Yes he cut tons of social programs, but they were also staring down Zimbabwe levels of inflation.

Liberals: Post meme outlining why current system doesn’t work

so anyways, I kept voting Dems…