(September 30, 2020 at 9:16 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 30, 2020 at 7:33 am)Sal Wrote: The recent canard by WP "Democracy dies in darkness" from 2017 should've been "Democracy dies in a shouting match" instead.
No, if there is a match in shouting, then even if brain dead, the democracy still has a heart beat.
The right wing might try to make the corpse of democracy twitch from time to time with strings all pulled with their hands, but they don’t care for the body to actually have any autonomous heart beat. Just look at Putin’s russia.
If tramp gets a second term, he will probably also get a third, in darkness.
Convince me.
I'm of the position that some minimal level of pluralism and non-partisanship is required for a democracy to function in elections. This "debate" didn't even have that tiny amount of decency in it.
I rolled my eyes when Trump derided Biden's son, which was the only time that I noticed he got Biden noticeably angry with this petulant bully.
If Trump wins, and I still think the asshole has a real chance, I predict a transparently fascist dictatorship by 2022, and civil war the same year that will be quickly over. Extermination. Afterwards the long night begins.
