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If it makes you feel better, everything is collapsing, not just democracy
Actually, fascism seems to be u on the up and up.
Fascism is inherently self-collapsing
Corporations are reporting record profits.
And my coworker wonders why I have no passion for my job.
And both posts have identical headlines.
And everyday life has the fucking temerity to go on.
Yes, the infinite sandwich
This is genius.
Every FREAKING day…
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.
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.
