• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    18 days ago

    If American democracy elects Trump, then your version of it has already failed.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 days ago

      The fact he’s a consideration for the presidency again means we’re already broken beyond repair, he’d just be the tombstone.

      We’ll have fascists shoot Americans in the street and fully protected by the law (and not just the cops who do it) before we ever have a candidate who can give us Universal Healthcare and a better minimum wage.

      A wake up call to fix the Democracy was in 2000, and we did nothing. We all ignored our complaints when 9/11 happened, and then did nothing when Trump won in 2016.

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        14 days ago

        It’s easy to keep rewinding until you find the one place we went wrong. Turnips first election, what we let bush get away with, Clinton’s turn of the party, electing Reagan, Nixon…. There always the one thing, there’s always the one weird trick.

        We have a broken garbage system that has failed. We’re in for some shit.