• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You can kiss American democracy goodbye.

    It’s gone. Whether our society is ready to accept it or not.

    Those of us who were repeating ad nauseum that the last 2 elections were really, really important were not fucking around.

    Our quality of life is set to decline for the remainder of our lives.

    • alkbch@lemmy.ml
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      16 hours ago

      American democracy is not gone. Don’t partake in doom and gloom.

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        17 hours ago

        Very.

        Whether we get rid of Trump and Republicans in 4 years is irrelevant. The nation is still overflowing with stupid people. It won’t be long before we vote in another traitorous Republican and we won’t have repaired all the damage from this administration by then. So we’ll continue trending downwards no matter what. The speed at which we do so might just fluctuate a little.

        Violent protests are going to start becoming commonplace in this nation. Homelessness will skyrocket. Retirement will be a thing of the past. It’s going to get very, very ugly.

        All because Americans can’t be bothered to vote responsibly.

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          8 hours ago

          Sigh… you wish violent protest would be common.

          This country is so neutered on peace messages and frazzled in disinformation we can’t even march in a single direction together.

          Everyone is one paycheck away from losing everything, and don’t want to bank it on the fact that the protest they skip work for will change anything… Because so far they haven’t.

          Maybe it’s time to go door to door asking people to join a march to DC and every capitol?