“The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusio … that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey.” 1/
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Thanks to the electoral college, it never was a democracy.
@heidilifeldman I'm eagerly waiting for november event.
@heidilifeldman to no surprise here.
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The USA has always been a low quality democracy, or even no democracy at all. But it was hidden. Not anymore.
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gringolandia is naziville
@heidilifeldman No, the US has always been more accurately described as a constitutional republic (if anything, maybe you can call it an indirect democracy, but definitely not a pure form of one). I believe this article best sums things up: https://www.standrewslawreview.com/post/is-the-united-states-a-constitutional-republic
if enough of us wrote/emailed/phoned/screamed outside their office to our congressional
reps to IMPEACH or face voter outrage leading to being voted out, and kept it up,
eventually we could regain our democracy
If you know of actions bringing people together as a force
to be reckoned with, while the world is up in arms against
Trump for so many reasons,
when the economy is getting ever worse ...
then Spread the word
https://lauriecorzett.substack.com/p/what-every-us-citizen-can-simply
#uspolitics #democracy
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77 million voted for this. 80 million let it happen by non-voting.
more or less they knew.
there are those excuses: "i didn't vote for this." "i didn't know this to happen." certain point those are not acceptable.
@heidilifeldman This is somehow news?
'Agency confirms the tant obvious, states centrist media.'
‘“Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever in the country,” says Staffan Lindberg, founder of the institute.’ 2/
@heidilifeldman Strange coincidence that he goes by the name of Lindberg.
“US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.” 3/
‘The…“liberal democracy index” shows that the speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is unprecedented in modern history. [M]ain factor is a “rapid and aggressive concentration of powers in the presidency”, Lindberg says. Congress has been marginalised, jeopardising the “checks and balances” … so crucial to US democracy. [C]ivil rights have been rapidly declining and freedom of expression is now at its lowest level since the 1940s.’ 4/4
@heidilifeldman Republicans packing the SCOTUS with regressive, religious, monarchist kooks has paid off exactly the way they wanted.
@heidilifeldman man in fairness Congress mainly marginalized itself by a gradual conversion from legislating to being an insider trading sinecure
Quibble: Congress has not “been marginalised.” Congress abdicated.
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