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  • We have no liberal democracies as we thought of them in the 90s.

    No. But that’s largely because we were lied to on the definition.

    Best part of all this is there are still probably people who think that leftists are the anti-democratic ones…

    Everyone knows that “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” doesn’t mean “Working People control the government”. It means “One Guy In a Hardhat Is The King”. Now lets re-litigate every historical event between 1917 and 1945, while drawing parallels back to the modern moment and insisting tankies stole the election.


  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldGuess who's back
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    we don’t really have any more true democracies

    What’s a True Democracy and when did we originally have it?

    Is this where we blink past Jim Crow and put blinders on during the Nixon/Reagan years to pretend popular politics was a real thing prior to Clinton?

    Or are we going to claim 1976 was the only truly free and fair election in IS history?




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    What devil has this guy made a deal with?

    He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.

    Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that’s guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.