What is your line in the sand?

Edit: thank you all for your responses. I think it’s important as an American we take your view points seriously. I think of a North Korean living inside of North Korea. They don’t really know how bad it is because that is all hidden from them and they’ve never had anything else. As things get worse for Americans it’s important to have your voices because we will become more and more isolated.

Even the guy who said, “lol.” Some people need that sort of sobering reaction.

  • Monkyhands@feddit.dk
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    28 days ago

    No. I agree with the comment about the electoral system and gerrymandering as fundamental issues. And the current administration does not respect the judiciary branch, that much is clear, and their actions are completely undermining the supposed divisions of power, without which there is no democracy.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      28 days ago

      I consider America to be a plutocracy, which successfully propagandized the majority with the illusion of democracy, now transitioning into a Christian fascist kleptocracy… Basically a mafia state / corporate dictatorship using religion to control the masses (as is tradition).

      If you think it’s not very Christian, that’s because most Christians consider Jesus’s teachings to be evil communism.

  • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    28 days ago

    The answer depends of the reference point. I was born in Russia (I’m living abroad from 2022) and compared to the putin’s dictatorship US is a democracy. You guys still have a freedom of speech, not fake opposition to Trump and independent courts. From the other side, most of the countries are democracies if compared to Russia…

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Line in the sand? Going after political opponents. Censoring information. Dismantling media. Abandoning rule of law. Business and government mixing too much.

    USA is speed running these.

  • Propheticus@lemmy.zip
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    28 days ago

    Yes, but a bad example of one very quickly heading towards autocracy. Some characteristics like screwing up your own economy and blaming ‘the foreigners’ rings a distant bell.

  • sasquash@sopuli.xyz
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    28 days ago

    Maybe a flawed democracy at best and it’s getting worse every day. At least on federal level, I don’t much about states politics. Not really an expert but democracy can’t really work that well if you are stuck in a two party system. Having more choice would sure help against populists and autocrats.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    A demo-crazy.

    Note that it is not democracy what Trumpeltier is destroying at the moment. It is the functioning of the state. This will take so many years to rebuild, if possible at all.

  • rpl6475@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Elective dictatorship, there is no accountability. Is there even a mechanism for the public to recall the president? Or is that it for the next 4 years?

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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      28 days ago

      There is not. He would have to be impeached by the senate, and then convicted by the majority of the Senate. Since the majority are currently his sycophants, it’s effectively not an option.

  • Intergalactic@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Absolutely not. A country where two parties are the only two viable electoral options, is absolutely not a democracy. Doesn’t mean I’ll stop my membership for the PSL.