A good run? 2 years of actually peace since the us existenz is your benchmark for a good run?
Amerikkka never had real democracy
Did we all forget the elected one put the unelected one in power?
“unelected”
he got up to stage and said he bought the fascist candidate. lots of people saw that and said “that’s OK, I’ll still vote red” and even more people saw that and said “that’s OK, I’ll still not vote”. around 160 million people saw this and were OK with it. yeah he wasn’t elected, but the “dictator on day one” was.
This right here.
They had a website for two years with a detailed plan. Project 2025 was widely known an people either voted for it or stayed at home. The dildo of consequences, as they say…
Democracy
Looks inside
Constitution written exclusively to protect monopoly business interests and prevent a monarchy
seems legit lol
Yeah I’m sure that giving rights to everyone (amendments are part of the Constitution!) was purely for business interests …
Lol the democracy part didn’t even start until 1965.
Even then, its more like Democracy Lite™.
Capitalism’s natural and unavoidable end stage.
I like to blame capitalism for everything, too, but this has nothing to do with capitalism. Just the US Democracy not being a Democracy
Capitalism worsens the principal agent problem of representative democracy because it’s trivial to bribe representatives, especially now.
Ah yes the world richest man and a billionaire president have no financial motives for overthrowing the US gov. Definitely not the fault of the greedy capitalist system
By world richest man you mean Putin or Bin Salman?
Pick one it’ll probably be correct anyway
Yes, but a functioning democratic system does not allow that.
Any power tripping person could overthrow a country for different reasons (like Hitler for example)
Capitalism encourages the break down of the democratic system.
Where communism never had any democracy to start with.
Thats because the US toppled every Democratic attempt at communism and socialism with staged coups and assassinations.
And why’s that folks? That’s right! The profit motive!
Yes, the US is clearly to blame for the Stasi.
Unbridled capitalism.
No, just capitalism is correct. Unbridled or not, the profit incentive and private ownership over the means of production, both of which are intrinsic to a capitalist economic structure, still exist and contribute to systemic oppression.
The richest people being the oligarchs has nothing to do with capitalism?
People who believe in 250 years of democracy enable systemic racism, patriarchy, etc.
Libs, please grow up.
Democracy is when you prohibit everybody but voting except rich white slave owners!
Reminder that our founding fathers broke off because of “taxation without representation” but then denied representation for most Americans.
Women? “No say.” Black people? “Wait those are people?” Native Americans? “Sure they were here first but I have money.” Immigrants? “Why would I support new comers to this land my family has been here for 30 years!”
We didn’t even used to vote for our senators, they were voted in by the state legislator, which you could vote for if your state allowed your kind to vote, but most places only allowed for certain people to vote.
America pretends it was a democracy, when Musk and Trump just show it was all a show and it could be toppled over at any point. Most of the laws in place for offices of power were just codes of ethics with no punishment for violation. If you did break a law, the president has never really been checked, so just break more as they figure out what to do.
Democracy must be fragile af if this is all it takes to topple it
Using first-past-the-post and giving a president too much power is fragile, yes.
Proportional election and a president with much less power is far safer. Some stuff takes a while to become a law, but at least it’ll be an actual agreement instead of an order.
Most good things are fragile. And with most things it just takes a few assholes to ruin it.
Democracy resisted for quite some time despite glaring problems.
See the Business Plot of 1933 that was undermined by a Medal of Honor-recipient and Major General, Smedley Butler whom they tried to recruit for the coup.
They have been eroding education and disenfranchising voters for decades. He loves the poorly educated, you know?
Don’t blame it on just one person. He has many
friendsaccomplices.Republicans/big business have been trying to install a fascist regime since 1933 when Smedley Butler shut the coup down down.
*since at latest 1933
The average age of an empire is 250 years, now were going to find out what’s going to replace it.
Well, not some of us I’m sure.
The Forever Purge™
we had a good run
Did you, though?
The rich guys did, it’s even getting better for them.
democracy
Looks inside
oligarchy
And completely broken and idiotic and easily manipulated voting system.
It’s almost as though the oligarchs could afford the best lawyers and judges to write up “democratic” laws that favor them, would certainly explain everything dems/repubs have been working together to do for 50+ years while boomers are all like “Nothing to see here, too busy focusing on myself.”
How cute, OP thinks the US has been a democracy for the last 250 years.
Points at SCOTUS. Electoral College. Winner-Takes-All underrepresentation. 100 years legal slavery, 100 years racial segregation. 150 years gendered voting rights.
Citizens united.
For-profit prison labour.
