A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is so fucked that the US isn't an anomaly. Authoritarianism has been on the rise since the 90s and we don't really have any more true democracies. The crazy right-wing jackasses that people back in 2000 and 2005 thought were just kooks and nutjobs are now 100% mainstream and they're taking over their respective countries... We are not in a good place.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me reword that. We have no liberal democracies as we thought of them in the 90s.

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.