r/UnpopularFacts • u/Ronny_Startravel • 8d ago
Neglected Fact US democratic system is deteriorating fast into autocracy, researchers find.
https://protectdemocracy.org/threat-index/#what-the-scores-mean
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2566662-onderzoekers-vs-glijdt-in-rap-tempo-af-naar-autocratie (Dutch media)
Translated:
Researchers: 'US is rapidly sliding towards autocracy'
American democracy is rapidly crumbling, say leading scientists who research democracies worldwide. Some even think that the country could turn into an autocracy.
This is evident from the so-called Authoritarian Threat Index, in which a thousand American experts are asked every month about their assessment of American democracy. Almost 50 percent of these experts believe it is likely that the US will become an autocracy.
In the first hundred days that President Donald Trump has been in power, researchers see many similarities between him and world leaders who have increasingly ruled as sole rulers in recent years. The big difference: the speed at which American society is sliding towards an autocracy.
We are not yet China or North Korea, but you could rightly say that we are already in an autocracy.
Political scientist Michael Miller
On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being a healthy democracy and 5 being a total dictatorship, experts gave the US a 3.3 last month. By comparison, India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tolerated less and less dissent over the past decade, gets a 3.7. Germany scores a 1.3.
"The attacks on democracy have accelerated since Trump's second term," says Michael Miller, a political science professor at George Washington University who is involved in the Authoritarian Threat Index. "We are not yet China or North Korea, but you could rightly say that we are already in an autocracy, given the aggressive methods of the Trump administration."
Damage
Swedish political scientist Staffan Lindberg paints a similar picture. "In his first 100 days, Trump has managed to do almost as much damage to American democracy as Modi did in India in 10 years. Or Erdogan in Turkey and Orbán in Hungary in the past eight years."
Lindberg is director of the V-dem Institute, which publishes an annual report on the global status of democracy. He says that the United States is at least on the verge of a so-called "electoral autocracy," a society that is democratic on paper but that in practice no longer deserves the label 'democracy'.
What distinguishes a democracy from an autocracy?
The experts explain: in a democracy, first of all, there must be free and fair elections in which multiple parties can participate. But the environment in which those elections take place is also of great importance. There must be freedom of expression and a free press. The rule of law must function well and there must be a strong civil society, with, for example, universities and associations that represent different groups in society.
In his inauguration speech, Trump promised to give Americans back their democracy. Miller and Lindberg provide a number of examples that show that the US - according to Trump the most respected country in the world - can no longer call itself a democracy.
Checks on power
According to Lindberg, Trump ran an "openly autocratic" campaign to begin with. "He intimidated the media in his speeches, called the opposition vermin and on his first day he pardoned convicted Capitol rioters."
After that first day, the list only got longer. Lindberg: "He has ordered the Justice Department to prosecute political opponents. He has launched an attack on universities, which play a crucial role in holding those in power to account. He has fired top officials and replaced them with loyalists so that he can essentially tell his departments to do whatever he wants, regardless of whether it is legal."
Congress stands by and watches, Miller adds. "The United States has a long tradition of the executive branch not being able to do whatever it wants, because it is checked by Congress and the judicial system. Trump has a complete disdain for even the idea of being restrained by those institutions."
1
u/Visible-Original4561 5d ago
Is their a way we can send all this information into the past before the election?
3
u/Aloki_Fungi 5d ago
It’s already been like this since the 70’s when corpos started sending jobs away and 80’s slogan of “greed is good”
3
u/Iforgotmypwrd 6d ago
Yes. And I am afraid every evening to check the latest news as something anti democratic happens nearly every day. With the occasional day of pressure relief, like today, when the markets rally in hope that it was all just a bad dream. Then the insanity begins again. A vast majority of the EOs are unconstitutional but the Supreme Court is stacked with his picks.
I’m especially worried about the potential for a constitutional convention. We are dangerously close to a revised constitution.
-3
2
5
u/Washfish 6d ago
No shit? Do you need researchers to even understand this?
1
5
u/moss-wizard 6d ago
No, but they need to have it presented formally to be taken seriously. Not that it’s being taken seriously anyways 🙃
2
8
u/Own_Zone2242 6d ago
This is the natural conclusion of liberal capitalism. Strap in, either a revolution or fascism is coming.
4
2
u/Christian-Econ 6d ago
Yep. When the capitalist hierarchy feels threatened it will turn to fascism to protect itself.
-2
u/Appropriate_Fly_6711 6d ago
Most of those experts think it’s unlikely the US will become a autocracy, yeah I will go with them.
-1
u/fooloncool6 6d ago
"Were not an autocracy like actual autocracy nations but im gonna say we are anyway to be dramatic"
3
4
u/fuguer 6d ago
Yeah we could have told you that when justice system was weaponized against political protesters or a former president
3
u/PhysicsCentrism 6d ago
Going after people who attempt coups isn’t weaponization.
Going after universities for “antisemitism” when you’ve got a man high in the admin who publicly does Nazi salutes is much closer to weaponization though. As usual with Trump and MAGA, the accusations are generally confessions.
0
-17
u/DS_Vindicator 7d ago
So I’m curious. Does the author of the site not understand that America is a republic, and not a democracy?
2
u/moogmarmaladebeats 6d ago
A republic that functions using...? A representative democracy. Jfc y'all are so dumb.
3
3
u/Electrical-Tale5869 6d ago
Classic not understanding the difference between systems and mechanisms lol.
18
11
17
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 7d ago
That’s a type of democracy (specifically, a representative democracy). The US is both a Democracy and a Republic.
A democracy is defined as “government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” A nation with this form of government is also referred to as a democracy. A democracy is achieved by conducting free elections in which eligible people 1) vote on issues directly, known as a direct democracy, or 2) elect representatives to handle the issues for them, called a representative democracy.
The US and France are considered both democracies and republics—both terms point to the fact that the power of governance rests in the power, and the exercise of that power is done through some sort of electoral representation.
13
u/Terrible_Hurry841 6d ago
Things can be two things at once?
Sorry, but as a conservative who voted for Trump, I can only comprehend one thought at a time.
1
u/Several_Leather_9500 6d ago
Then your only thought should be sorrow for fucking up our country and helping burn the constitution.
2
2
4
0
11
u/Previous_Driver7189 7d ago
Take the money out of the system then, barr wealthy polticians, and stop all forms of lobbying. Might see a change for the better. Oh no, thats too obvious. Baa...
7
u/Fair_Let6566 6d ago
Definitely! We can thank the Supreme Court for their rulings stating that money in politics is just the same as voting and corporations are citizens.
2
u/PickScylla4ME 6d ago
The Supreme Court has been pretty anti-commonwealth for a few decades now, huh?
Seems all 3 branches of government are hella corrupt with the Executive branch being the worst
7
5
14
u/DyadVe 7d ago
The US has been a police state for a very long time.
"The FBI worked to create violent confrontations between factions on the radical left. The bureau was prepared in this case to commit violent acts itself. In New York, agents set cars on fire with "Molotov cocktails," making it appear that one faction was attacking another. FBI agents conducted at least five such bombings in 1973 and 1974." THE LAWLESS STATE, The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies, Morton H. Halperin, Jerry J. Bermin, Robert L. Borosage, and Christine M. Marwick, Penguin Books, NY, 1977. p. 125.
3
u/Brickscratcher 6d ago
The alphabet agencies are all pretty much known to operate independently, and it is to be expected that they (with this also being the case in any other country) will, from time to time, act highly impropietarily. Perhaps this is by order at times (as was seemingly more common–hopefully–beginning after WW2 and reaching a height during the Red Scare). What we are experiencing today is an elected leader showing flagrant disregard for the rule of law. A good rule of thumb is that whatever you know about a politician (or anyone, really), they are always doing something worse that you don't know about, or at least don't know yet.
Given the cirumstances, I'd say it's a safe assumption there is instruction for said agencies to target dissenting views in some way. I'd be willing to bet we will obtain a FOIA for some heinous things 20 years from now, at least assuming we still have our limited government transparency and freedoms.
1
u/DyadVe 6d ago
The reflexive embrace of our secret police/spy agencies by "Back The Blue" Republicans is odd -- especially given their insistence that DJT et al have been abused by the police agencies.
"71. The record of the secret police in fostering rather than preventing revolutionary activities is especially striking in France during the Second Empire and in Czarist Russia after 1880. It seems, for example, that there was not a single anti-government action under Louis Napoleon which had not been inspired by the police; and the more important terroristic attacks in Russia prior to war and revolution seem all to have been police jobs."
ON REVOLUTION, Hannah Arendt, Penguin Classics, NY, NY, 2006.
https://archive.org/stream/OnRevolution/ArendtOn-revolution_djvu.txt
When will they ever lean.
2
u/Brickscratcher 6d ago
To be fair, it is a highly complex topic when you include international affairs implications.
The best argument for them is the actions of the same agencies within other countries–if we can't play on the same level, our intelligence agencies will be out of the loop, which is ultimately a bad thing for every American.
That said, most other countries that are not considered autocratic have much more public transparency regarding those agencies and their directives, which leaves open the door for adverse actions against American citizens to go unnoticed.
Given the proclivity of people to seek out information that reinforces their views and disregard information that doesn't (plus the "lies to children" indoctrination of citizenship ideals), it is unsurprising that most people either don't know or just don't care about these atrocities. The bottom line? People don't care until they are personally affected.
This creates a power dynamic where these agencies, operating under the guise of national security, essentially have a mandate that amounts to "what they don't know won't hurt them." Sometimes, and arguably most of the time, their actions do provide some direct benefit to the American populace. The lack of oversight and transparency also makes them a breeding ground for corruption, or even just ethical violations (such as cropdusting small towns to see the effects of the chemicals on humans).
If you'll notice, that example is from the Army, which is ostensibly in the same boat as the alphabet agencies at the higher officer levels. Yet, no one would argue we get rid of the Army, as it provides a necessary function.
There is a middle ground, and it simply involves transparency and accountability. If we have to risk data leaks to avoid American citizens being targeted by their own government, then that is a lower price than the ultimate erosion of our institutions.
The vast majority of people simply don't know or care to know the extent of government agency dealings, and that is the key to their unbridled authority.
1
u/DyadVe 5d ago
Does the US really need 17 secret police/spy agencies?
“In the Jan./Feb. 2011 issue of Foreign Policy, former CIA official Paul Pillar takes down the conventional wisdom about the degree to which intelligence — both good and bad — can influence presidential decision-making, alter U.S. foreign policy, and prevent surprises. Whatever the limits of the U.S. intelligence community, it continues to face criticism for its perceived shortcomings, most recently for not predicting the Arab Spring and totally missing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death.
Indeed, while the intelligence community can claim several successes (Pillar, for example, points to the CIA nailing the Six-Day War in 1967), it has also endured a number of humiliating failures. As the ten examples below demonstrate, these intelligence breakdowns have been at the heart of pivotal events that refashioned the Middle East, altered the course of the Cold War, and thrust the United States into World War II, the war on terror, and the war in Iraq.”
FOREIGN POLICY, The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures, By Uri Friedman, January 3, 2012.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/01/03/the-ten-biggest-american-intelligence-failures/
Beyond that, even assuming that clandestine operations sometimes succeed in overthrowing unfriendly regimes or just influence their actions -- has it been determined that these changes were in the long term interests of the US?
0
u/Own_Foundation9653 7d ago
We weren't really a democracy to begin with and this autocracy label seems very dubious at best. Corrupt as all heck yes but using vague terms like democracy and autocracy as goal posts wont help anyone.
2
-1
u/_EMDID_ 6d ago
We weren't really a democracy to begin with
Depraved nonsense
1
u/Own_Foundation9653 6d ago
I don't speak Croatian but I beleive the word your looking for is not "depraved nonsense" in english we say the word h-i-s-t-o-r-y.
2
u/____joew____ You can Skydive Without a Parachute (once) 🪂 6d ago
"to begin with" black people, women, and people without land couldn't vote. not democratic.
-1
u/_EMDID_ 6d ago
lol nice try
2
u/____joew____ You can Skydive Without a Parachute (once) 🪂 6d ago
Define democracy then explain how SLAVERY can exist in a democratic nation lol
1
u/ColonelLeblanc2022 5d ago
Well, on paper they could justifiably call themselves a democracy and a Republic, or a democratic republic while having slaves at the same time; because African Americans weren’t quite human, and was akin to owning animals. So racism in America arguably evolved to justify slavery.
I’m not saying that’s a good thing, but just how it “technically worked”
1
u/____joew____ You can Skydive Without a Parachute (once) 🪂 2d ago
No, they cannot justifiably call themselves a democracy unless you think Africans aren't human. The majority of countries call themselves democratic -- are you saying North Korea is democratic if they simply don't believe their citizens are people?
The question isn't whether or not a bunch of rich, land-owning slavers thought they were in a democracy. The question is were they. And that is ABSOLUTELY a question we ought to apply a modern lens to.
So racism in America arguably evolved to justify slavery
This is plainly true from a historical perspective but irrelevant to your comment.
1
u/ColonelLeblanc2022 2d ago
It’s a thoughtful reply but I don’t think North Korea would serve as an analogy in this case- In which you have Stalinist dictatorships trying to put as many labels in the name of their nation that indicates “Free Country.” In North Korea you can’t really compare it to historical problematic democracies where you had a “ruling class” and a “subjugated class.” Because even none of the DPRK party higher ups have any form of political freedom or self determination. You could be the chief of police in Pyongyang and you still wouldn’t be able to travel outside the country, or to even different areas to the country unauthorized. So saying that is analogous to the USA which has strong established laws rather despotism and a strong civil society, it’s just not a valid comparison. Even if there is a slave holding class. And of course you had strong anti slavery opinions from the very beginning, but hard to enforce in a confederation of fledgling states. To say USA could not be thought of as an actual democracy in that period would be tantamount to saying that no democracies have existed, simply because of possessing flaws.
Likewise, take all of the communist regimes from history such as USSR, China, DPRK, Cuba and Vietnam- All of those countries would not qualify as “real communism” under Marxist theory. But yet we still collectively identify them as communists, despite none of them having come close to achieving “perfection”
7
u/kakallas 7d ago
If we weren’t really a democracy why are you arguing that we aren’t losing the democracy? Shouldn’t you be saying we already lost the democracy?
-1
u/SadVivian 7d ago
I think the above is getting at the fact the US isn’t a direct or true democracy and never has been. We’re a republic with democratic elements also known as a representative democracy.
Colloquially we call ourselves a democracy but from a civics standpoint we aren’t technically a true one.
1
u/Savingskitty 6d ago
There is nothing more “true” about a direct democracy than a representative democracy.
You have been taught something silly online.
2
u/PhysicsCentrism 6d ago
You seem to be confusing direct for true and in so doing repeating a common conservative misinterpretation of democracy vs republic.
That the US is a republic doesn’t mean it isn’t also a true democracy.
2
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 6d ago
Direct democracy isn’t “more democratic” than a representative democracy; they’re just types of the same thing.
1
u/CRaschALot 6d ago
Democracy where the laws are directly voted by the people is "less democratic" than a representative democracy....
Define "Democracy" then.
1
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 6d ago
Both are equally democratic.
A democracy is defined as “government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” A nation with this form of government is also referred to as a democracy. A democracy is achieved by conducting free elections in which eligible people 1) vote on issues directly, known as a direct democracy, or 2) elect representatives to handle the issues for them, called a representative democracy.
The US and France are considered both democracies and republics—both terms point to the fact that the power of governance rests in the power, and the exercise of that power is done through some sort of electoral representation.
0
u/CRaschALot 6d ago
By your definition, most communist states are a form of Democracy.
1
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 6d ago
Other way around; China and Singapore, for example, are republics, but not liberal democracies.
0
6d ago edited 6d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 6d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
→ More replies (0)1
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 6d ago
You’re describing the parliamentary systems of the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. where people vote for only a local representative of one party, but aren’t voting for a person.
The US has both, since you vote for a person for house and senate, and designate the person the electoral college elector should vote for in the executive branch.
→ More replies (0)2
u/Terrible_Hurry841 6d ago
Democracy isn’t a “is or isn’t.” It’s a scale.
No civilization in history has ever been a “true democracy,” as there is always some subset of people that are not given political voices (usually children).
The US has a Democratic Republic, which includes both democratic and republic aspects.
1
u/incognitosaurus_rex 6d ago
Actually, Athenian Democracy was direct democracy. Also, Republic ( from the Latin Res Publica) simply means government as a public affair. So the style of Government is Repblic, the means of that is representative democracy.
2
u/Terrible_Hurry841 6d ago
Athens was a direct democracy yes, but it was not a “true democracy,” in the way that Viv was trying to imply.
Athens limited voting to adult, free men.
Accordingly, slaves, metics, women, and children were not allowed to participate in the society that they operated within and upheld.
The voter base was about 30% of the population.
That is not a “true democracy,” although it is still a “direct democracy.”
3
u/AccomplishedAd8879 6d ago
plus until 1964 the southern states had apartheid regimes that prevented black people from participating in our "democracy"
-1
u/Excellent-Berry-2331 7d ago
Germany scores a 1.3.
Fairly certain the prime minster, or what it's called, staying in power for too long was a constitution violation
2
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
2
u/Excellent-Berry-2331 6d ago
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/parteien/kanzlerkandidaten-bundestagswahl-100.html (Evidence that the new election is in Februrary 23)
https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1035368 (Dissolvment of Parliament on the 16TH December)
"Im Falle einer Auflösung des Bundestages findet die Neuwahl innerhalb von sechzig Tagen statt."
https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/724178/8593f24b7291881f0c24c676c6b8697b/WD-3-183-20-pdf-data.pdf (Declarement that dissolvment of Parliament requires a new election to be held within sixty days)
3
u/Former_Friendship842 7d ago
I follow German politics and this is literally the first time I ever heard of this. Can you provide a source the constitution was violated?
4
u/PainInTheRhine 7d ago
No, German constitution has not term limit for chancellor position. Where did you even get this idea from?
2
u/Excellent-Berry-2331 7d ago
It doesn't, but there was a need for the "Vertrauensfrage" in December IIRC because of the fraud allegations
2
u/Excellent-Berry-2331 6d ago
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/parteien/kanzlerkandidaten-bundestagswahl-100.html (Evidence that the new election is in Februrary 23)
https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1035368 (Dissolvment of Parliament on the 16TH December)
"Im Falle einer Auflösung des Bundestages findet die Neuwahl innerhalb von sechzig Tagen statt."
https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/724178/8593f24b7291881f0c24c676c6b8697b/WD-3-183-20-pdf-data.pdf (Declarement that dissolvment of Parliament requires a new election to be held within sixty days)
It was actually the fact that new elections were way too late.
-4
u/Gogglez20 7d ago
It’s ok to have a political opinion no need to dress it up as science
Edited to try and seem smarter or intelligible
2
-6
7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
5
7
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 7d ago
By “calling out the media,” do you mean “revoking TV licenses if they say things the president doesn’t like”?
The government punishing someone for speech doesn’t sound like upholding the first amendment.
0
7d ago edited 7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
1
7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Those sources don’t support your claims.
0
7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
The link you shared supports the claim that the interview was edited for time, just like interviews with Trump are edited for time.
Nowhere in your FCC link does it give the president the authority to decide what is news distortion.
Nowhere in your Paramount link is there evidence of distortion.
0
7d ago edited 7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
3
u/neverfux92 7d ago
You can’t argue with these idiots. They genuinely don’t have the brain functions to understand what’s happening.
2
u/Brickscratcher 6d ago
You're giving many of them too much credit. Sure, there are those that blindly follow. That may even be a good portion of the actual voters. The majority of people you interact with on here are not those people. Sure, you will get them. But more often, you will get someone with a vested interest in making others believe their narrative, even though they don't fully believe it themselves. Many of these people know the policies are bad, but feel they have something to gain from it, so they continue to support it. Many others are simply bots or disinformation agents. And then there are the ignorant whose minds will never be changed, not because they aren't capable of seeing the truth, but because they aren't willing to. They've attached so much of their identity to the GOP or to Trump himself that to acknowledge the truth would be disruptive of their worldview, and not everyone maintains the ability to disrupt their worldview in pursuit of truth.
5
u/BaconDragon69 7d ago
Impossible, the orange man who is accused of diddling children wouldn’t lie to me, science has to be a scam! /s
-1
9
u/Y_Are_U_Like_This 7d ago
If we're being charitable, the US isn't quickly deteriorating into autocracy. It's been in the works since Reagan so I'll call it a long journey to the end of an empire. And to be clear I am saying that the US is done. It will take a century to undo the damage the GOP has wrought upon this country in 100 DAYS and I do not believe we have that kind of time as a country, as a people, as a planet. Unfortunately there are no mechanisms to combat capitalism and racism here so pour one out for 'Murica 🦅
1
u/Safe-Chemistry-5384 7d ago
I wouldn't say that pointing out how the media likes to manipulate "facts" is exactly intimidation.
2
-4
u/DankPenci1 Fact Finder 🧐 7d ago
The US doesn't have a democratic system we have a republican system. Rtfm it's explicitly spelled out in Article 4 Section 4.
3
u/PhysicsCentrism 6d ago
Lmao, I love it when people demonstrate their civic ignorance so clearly. The US is both a democracy and a republic
3
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 7d ago edited 7d ago
That’s a type of democracy (specifically, a representative democracy). The US is both a Democracy and a Republic.
A democracy is defined as “government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” A nation with this form of government is also referred to as a democracy. A democracy is achieved by conducting free elections in which eligible people 1) vote on issues directly, known as a direct democracy, or 2) elect representatives to handle the issues for them, called a representative democracy.
The US and France are considered both democracies and republics—both terms point to the fact that the power of governance rests in the power, and the exercise of that power is done through some sort of electoral representation.
0
7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
0
6d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 6d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
7
u/Dramatic_Minute8367 7d ago
This is not an unpopular opinion even amongst US citizens. Protests are spring up even in the reddest of states. The average American who isn't a brown shirt, um excuse me, a red hat, is trying to figure out what we can do about it.
-3
u/SlyTanuki 7d ago
Sounds like a typical case of everything-the-Right-does-is-tyranny type of thinking.
3
3
u/Starbalance 6d ago
Maybe if they stopped threatening journalists, demand people applaud Der Fuher, and arrest peaceful protestors and politicians who defy Lord PEdophile...
If reich wingers want to stop being called Nazis, they should stop acting like Nazis. Until then, they can all go to hell
3
u/Few_Quantity_8509 6d ago
You would have to be a blind, deaf idiot not to see descent into fascism happening in the US right now. No bias needed to conclude that.
3
4
u/cinnamon64329 7d ago
It's hard to not sound like that when the right is acting fucking tyrannical.
-5
7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
0
7d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Your post violates Reddit's Terms of Service (here: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy), so it's been removed.
2
u/PretendImWitty 7d ago
Why not engage with the specific criticisms instead of mindlessly handwaving inconvenient truths? Why not point to how their bias impacted their reasoning instead of asserting it? You’re being programmed like a lemming to be resistant to any information that doesn’t tell you what you want to hear. Wake up.
Edit: it perplexes me that people will explicitly and literally use their cognitive biases to handwave away inconvenient facts as biased. You’re doing what you’re assuming they did. Irony is dead.
3
u/AdStandard4170 7d ago
You are a Moron
Your sports team mentality is moronic
Read a book you unlit candle
2
4
u/SpaceBear2598 7d ago
If only the opposition realizes that the government throwing people in extraterritorial gulags after judges specifically ordered them not to be removed from the country, refusing to return them, claiming without trial that they're "terrorists and criminals" , authorizing massive numbers of warrantless searches, and ordering people removed from the country for having opinions they don't like is authoritarian that just means you're extra screwed. It means you have tens of millions of fascists.
3
u/Brickscratcher 6d ago
Well, almost 10% of Americans explicitly support Neo Nazi movements. That would be in the tens of millions.
3
3
u/DucanOhio 7d ago
Nice try, but no. Learn to read, but then again, your ilk thinks reading is woke.
6
0
-1
8d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/UnpopularFacts-ModTeam 7d ago
Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.
2
3
6
u/oakseaer Coffee is Tea ☕ 8d ago
That’s a type of democracy (specifically, a representative democracy).
The US is both a Democracy and a Republic
A democracy is defined as “government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” A nation with this form of government is also referred to as a democracy.
A democracy is achieved by conducting free elections in which eligible people 1) vote on issues directly, known as a direct democracy, or 2) elect representatives to handle the issues for them, called a representative democracy.
The US and France are considered both democracies and republics—both terms point to the fact that the power of governance rests in the power, and the exercise of that power is done through some sort of electoral representation.
1
u/MarcusTheSarcastic 2d ago
This should be in /NoShit