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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

www.theatlantic.com

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American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

www.theatlantic.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.
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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    American Democracy is already dead, those stupid red hat fucks helped murder it.

  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    We no longer Have a functioning democracy

  • Octagon9561@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    Amerikkka has never been a real democracy. It just somehow keeps getting more dictatorial by the day.

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    The other option is that they might survive, I guess. When did pure conjecture replace facts?

  • asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    America has ALWAYS been an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy. The mask is dropping further down every day.

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    Oh. This’ll be the death blow? We’ve had so many now.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    American democracy has not survived.

    FIFY

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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    American democracy won’t survive the next flu season. It’s pretty fucking fragile.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Starting from the premise we have a democracy at this point is flawed.

  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    what democracy?

  • Ironfist79@lemmy.world
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    We don’t need to imagine. He’s doing it right now.

  • Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip
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    Ha!! My sides…

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    Surviving implies not yet being dead…

  • wanderwisley@lemm.ee
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    American democracy didn’t survive the first month of this year.

    • asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      American democracy didn’t survive the constitution that only allowed rich white males any voice.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      It’s the political version of ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ … America killed democracy a long time ago and they’ve been parading around the dead body for years pretending that everything is OK.

      As the years go by it’s getting harder and harder to get people to ignore the rotting stinking corpse they keep dressing up in American flags and uniforms.

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      I’d argue it died in November ‘24

      • asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It died March 4, 1789

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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        More like November 2000

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          Shit, it’s basically all Reagan’s fault if we wanna get down to it.

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            Well, that, and Nixon, and Milton Friedman. But yeah.

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        Agreed

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    Good. Glass it and start afresh. The current us is a disaster.

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