• BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
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    4 days ago

    And that’ll work exactly once, just like it did in 2020. Then after four more years of compromising with fascism, it won’t work again, and they’ll lose to the greater evil.

    Just kidding, we’re not going to have real elections again.

    • babybus@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Just kidding, we’re not going to have real elections again.

      Absolutely. One Russian opposition politician described Putin’s first term by saying: “We thought we could get rid of him in the next elections.” But that didn’t happen as we know. When someone comes to power and quickly removes checks and balances, it becomes very difficult to reverse that. Democracy is not guaranteed, even in the US.