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United States | News & PoliticsGod I’m so tired. Yes. Me. A disabled queer who lives 3000 miles away from this turd, is the problem. I am 100% complicit because I’m not, what, physically going there and pulling him out by his ear? Okay then.
It is a capitalist democracy where both parties are controlled by the same monied class
In what world is the United States a democracy?
Nothing the people actually want ever happens.
If it did, they wouldn’t all end up bankrupt at the end of their lives.
That's not true. Both parties promise unlimited imperialism and people vote for it.
If both parties promise the same thing, then it isn't really a democracy, it's a single party dictatorship with multiple personality disorder.
The US is obviously a dictatorship of capital, but a lot of people continue calling it a democracy. And these people then have to be made to realize they make themselves directly complicit in the crimes the state commits.
This is the logical equivalent of charging a serial killer's parents with the murders their child committed. He ran and was elected on promises like fixing affordability and that he is the "most peaceful president".
Last month was the largest protest in the history of the nation against Trump. His approval rating is at 33%. Multiple impeachments have shown that is nearly impossible to legally remove a sitting president.
If you want you can blame Trump, his cabinet, the legislative/executive/judicial systems, right wing media/influencers, and then the voters (in that order).
No, you're not children, you are grown ass adults. You have a direct responsibility for what your country does. None of the theatre like these protests and approval ratings accomplish anything. If you can't remove a mad kind within the framework of the system, then your whole system is broken and needs to be torn down. I blame the American public who allows the horrors that the Burger Reich commits around the world to continue. You are complicit.
A lot of people in the US are complicit.
That is also true, just not on account of the the US being democratic.
I was simply agreeing with parent's assessment.
But the US is the only Democracy in the Americas!
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@yogthos@lemmy.ml @obvs@lemmy.world I guess it might trigger some in the US to have compassion for the people of e.g. Russia when they want to hold the entirety of the people of Russia for the Ukraine ordeal. Either way, this is all very grim.
If the US commits a nuclear genocide against Iran and the rest of the world just looks on, then we're going to be living in a horrific world indeed.
Fortunately for me, an American citizen, I fully understand that my democratically "elected" leaders absolutely have fuck-all to do with what I personally want, or even what the vast majority of people actually want. Of course this means my life is way worse then it could be, but morally I'm in the clear.
If THIS isn't Worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize NOTHING is!
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Sadly the reality is that America isn't a democracy. It's struggling as a business representative government but the courts say money is equal to speech so the rich are running over everything and trying to make the People pay for those decisions.
Hopefully the People get a say in the government soon!
America isn’t a democracy
Hopefully the People get a say in the government soon
If it's not a democracy, and you don't plan on overthrowing D.C, how is that supposed to happen?
Pardon the snark but it kind of sounds like you want your cake and eat it too; either it is a democracy, and the people will get a say, and thus USians are collectively responsible for their government action, or it's not a democracy and the people won't have a say in the government
from my (perhaps limited) perspective, it does seem that the people are indeed getting a say, and a lot of people are very happy with the current US admin (and a lot also are not, but not enough to have any decent policy, and keep in mind that I'm not singling out Trump from his predecessors who also were warmongers)
Here’s a chart of how likely a policy is to become enacted (Y axis), based on public support of the policy (X axis):
