Sure, but there's a difference between voting for somebody more extreme because the existing options are ineffective, and supporting people with these attributes (pettiness, hatred, fascist-y behavior, incompetence, disrespect of laws/rights/citizens, disrespect of traditional US standards for leadership, etc).
Sure, but there's a difference between voting for somebody more extreme because the existing options are ineffective, and supporting people with these attributes (pettiness, hatred, fascist-y behavior, incompetence, disrespect of laws/rights/citizens, disrespect of traditional US standards for leadership, etc).
We? You aren't doing anything, you just happen to like what this guy is telling you to do more than the other guys.
GP claimed Americans (that is "we") are "not good stewards of democracy." I agreed and offered an explanation as to why.
I'm confused how you can say it's Americans doing it while recognising in the same sentence that it's happening outside of the realm of democracy.
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Democracy makes problems much more visible. The "other ideas" will just hide problems much better
Hides them under a mountain of corpses with duct tape over their mouths. That's the only way these autocratic nightmares end.
Maybe they haven't, but your other ideas are clearly worse.