• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Democracy is increasingly unpopular because the people who broke it say it can’t possibly work

    well put. and the people who broke it did so because they insist it never works (for them); it not working - for them - is actual evidence that democracy is functioning. They simply cannot accept that their ideas are bad, their platform polarizing, their attempts at reassurance outright ghoulish (only a day one dictatorship, it can be bloodless if the left lets it happen, etc.,) - and since they can’t have their way with a popular vote, they’ll choose tyranny, no debate, no hesitation.

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      3 months ago

      Exactly. I’m firmly convinced that this is the ultimate goal of decades of Republican obstructionism. They get what they want or nothing happens. And what they want is never helpful and they don’t actually do much of what they do want when they can. Repeal and replace never happened. They just obstructed. How many people decided after that that democracy can’t work? I do not believe newt Gingrich believes in a republican or democratic system of governance. He wants a fucking oligarchy or dictatorship. As has all who followed him.