(November 9, 2016 at 6:07 am)abaris Wrote:(November 9, 2016 at 5:59 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: It come time to face facts, the United States of America is not a democracy and its slide to facist dictatorship is accelerating.
I wouldn't be the first one to throw a stone. Being European and looking at the sickening state it's in, it only gives me more reason for concern if the only remaining super power just elected a flat out idiot to run the show. I never thought I would see the day, but right now I get rather nostalgic over Shrub.
Shrub was the point at which reasonable people got the definitive evidence of the US's lack of democracy. In 2000 after illegally disenfranching over 80,000 voters from contituencies which voted Democratic (the "haning chads" were a bait and switch) in Florida Gore still won the state yet daddy Shrub's Supreme Court installed him in the most legally illiterate decision made by a US court in the country's history.
But then again we shouldn't expect democracy or legality from a system explicitly modelled on the Roman Republic.
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