The United States is imploding. The reign of Donald Trump is not only challenging and threatening the very foundations of its constitutional democracy, it
In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.
Oh, I agree; I’m not sure there’s any non-violent path to reform anymore. Maybe before Trump was re-elected there was a small window where the Pubes come back center a little and we’d have more time. I believe reform at the national level would only have been possible after widespread reforms at the state level, when the general population was already comfortable with RCV; there’s been a lot of progress in many states to implementing some form of IRV, always with positive outcomes.
But I think we missed that window. Trump’s busy wrecking what he can so that in four years there’s no organized resistance to him forcing himself a third term. Unless people get off their asses and there’s a wave of Mangiones; unless the middle and lower class realize the only war is class war, and combine to fight the oligarchs, we’re on a path to dictatorship. With the media controlled by the oligarchy and efficient messaging pitting the middle and lower classes against each other, that’s not going to happen.
I don’t see a French Revolution in the US. Too much bread and circuses. I don’t think we’ll see an uprising because people are too busy having arguments on Lemmy.
Oh, I agree; I’m not sure there’s any non-violent path to reform anymore. Maybe before Trump was re-elected there was a small window where the Pubes come back center a little and we’d have more time. I believe reform at the national level would only have been possible after widespread reforms at the state level, when the general population was already comfortable with RCV; there’s been a lot of progress in many states to implementing some form of IRV, always with positive outcomes.
But I think we missed that window. Trump’s busy wrecking what he can so that in four years there’s no organized resistance to him forcing himself a third term. Unless people get off their asses and there’s a wave of Mangiones; unless the middle and lower class realize the only war is class war, and combine to fight the oligarchs, we’re on a path to dictatorship. With the media controlled by the oligarchy and efficient messaging pitting the middle and lower classes against each other, that’s not going to happen.
I don’t see a French Revolution in the US. Too much bread and circuses. I don’t think we’ll see an uprising because people are too busy having arguments on Lemmy.