(April 19, 2025 at 4:50 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: USA fails by many metrics (wealth disparity, imprisonment rate, support for israel genocidal actions) so trump supporters can be right in that gov failed them. Wanting strong man to save them however is nothing more than childishness and ignorance about fate of fascist regimes coupled with propaganda.
I frequently go back to the study done by professors at Princeton and Northwestern a few years ago, which compared polls of what people want with the actions taken by government.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
These researchers concluded that the will of the people has little or no effect on what government does. So if they're right, there is no democracy to lose.
What we should call the present system I'm not sure. Oligarchy, or maybe Inverted Totalitarianism. Anyway, Trump seems to me like just the extreme point (so far) of a trend that's been going on for a while now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
