Was it ever?
Nope, Democracy for the Few is a great book on the subject incidentally.
There are many people still living with rose tinted glasses with the 80s and 90s USA image in their heads. It is frustrating.
We’re going to have to make massive changes to our democracy if it’s going to survive in the modern world. As is, it’s paralyzed by crisis and undermined by forces in and outside the country. It just can’t compete on the global stage like it used to do. We need to shake up the electoral system. It can be done, but the political will and popular support isn’t there. Get rid of the Electoral College and shorten the election cycle by having one national primary about a month before the final election. Move to a unicameral legislature with term limits and without byzantine procedural rules. Ditch FPTP voting for something, anything better.
This is because of Trump though lol
But the cracks in democracy is showing around the world. I’ve heard the number of 70% of people in the world are seeing their civil liberties tightened and democracy crumbling. Even here on Lemmy you can see it happening, maybe in the extreme. Populism is rampant, both on the right and on the left. Although it’s worse on the right.
I hope Biden can provide a little stability and gather back some belief in the future. It seems like he is doing a good job so far. But unfortunately extremism grows really quick on the internet, and I don’t know what can stop that. We have children as young as 14 getting radicalized with extremist muslim, facist or even communist stuff.
I remember reading about children playing out facism on Roblox
We are living in pretty dark times
The reality is that Trump is just a symptom of a failing system that’s result of unbridled neoliberalism championed by Reagan. The system suffered huge back to back economic crashes in 2000 and 2008 that resulted in a massive wealth transfer to the top while leaving millions of people destitute. Right wing populism that Trump harnessed was a direct result of that.
I don’t fully agree. Like Trump is the force that is breaking the system, although I don’t like the republican party historically it’s a pretty huge divide between today-s republicans and the pre-trump republicans. And while the economic history has an effect, usually current economic situation usually has more of an effect on voting than historical ones. And from during Obama USA has had a economic boom which Trump has been riding off of until he was booted out from office.
I think Trump is more an affect of a global trend of authoritarianism and also in some part facism. (I could say far-left too, but far left has no real pull in IRL politics and is really bad at gaining political support). We see similar tendencies happening around the world. A few really good examples is India and Cyprus.
I do agree that the rich should be taxed and all that. But not taxing the rich is not what made the economic crash or made Trump unfortunately. It would easy if the problem was just right-wing politics.
I just hope we can turn this global trend where civil liberties and democracy is tarnished. (But from a conversation we had a long time ago, I remember that you want the USSR back in Russia lol, so we are not going agree on this. Although I consider that just as extreme and wild as a person voting for Trump)
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Not really. Although the classdevide is growing we haven’t ever seen such wealth and stability in the world as it has been in recent times.
Tax the rich ofc, but I don’t think that take fits here.
