There Is No “Both Sides” to Donald Trump’s Threat to Democracy
There Is No “Both Sides” to Donald Trump’s Threat to Democracy
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There Is No “Both Sides” to Donald Trump’s Threat to Democracy
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I get where you're coming from but wanting an option other than corporate politicians is very different from willingly electing your last president as a childish incompetent dictator.
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It's a bit too reductive to turn the statement "American democracy has been dead a long time" to "we want more candidate options".
The real problem isn't some rhetorical or presentation problem, it's that we have hard data that public opinion has actually no influence on laws. Only people within the oligarchy (e.g those with massive amounts of capital) influence the law. That's not democracy, even if you present it as such by having people tick a box every 2/4 years.
To have a real democracy you need voting in ways that actually impacts people's day to day lives. By far the most influential version of this would be democracy in the workplace, but we don't have that, we have authoritarian dictatorships in the workplace. It's still legal to rent people with capital, it's legal to own forms of private, non-personal property (e.g factories), and as long as we have rules like these, organizations will be led by authoritarian capital, and not by grassroots democracy.
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I mean... There is. But, Trump's side represents a much more imminent and intentional threat.
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You mis-spelled Putin & Xi.
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Then the DNC better primary Biden and get someone in there thats not taking us further into war, and getting Palestinians slaughtered by the 10 of thousands.
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I agree with you on the Palestine comment, however, that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. How would DNC primarying Biden in any way have an impact on how media and political parties are framing readily available and verifiable facts as debatable political points?
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It's been illegal for insurrectionists who have betrayed their oath of office to uphold the constitution to run for office since July 9, 1868 when the 14th amendment was approved. There is nothing quick about it.
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He's removed from ballots, people won't go to jail for voting for him, it's just more inconvenient to do so.
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I mean, when you violate one of the few laws above all the branches that is regarding whether you're allowed to be elected....
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Why exactly do you want to vote for a treasonous insurrectionist? Why should such a person be allowed to run?
Do you really think it's undemocratic to protect democracy from someone approaching fascism?
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I dont. I dont like trump. I hope he gets convicted for his crimes. But so far he hasnt. People are direly minimizing how dangerous a precedent it is to bar a frontrunner candidate from an election. That is millions of Americans who are being told they cant vote for who they want to, by the opposition party. Later on Trump will preach to them about democracy being taken away from them, and theyll have quite the reason to believe him. This wont go well.
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What sucks is I’m sure no conservative reads Vanity Fair.
What sucks is I'm sure no conservative reads.