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Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds
(www.reuters.com)
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US "democracy" will be fine. Russia is still technically a democracy. US can also have it both ways: have some sort of life long president staging sham elections and locking up political rivals at the same time. It will still be a 'democracy'. Of course Supreme Court would not let that... oh wait, they're all hand picked by the dictator, never mind. I wander if an average American would even notice any difference.
Right, but if it's a sham democracy, it's not a democracy. That's the thing about Russia - it's not actually a democracy. The layer of "democracy" is just a layer of authoritarian control with a very thin coat of paint.
Yes and what I'm saying is that US is not really that far away from this system. It doesn't have strong constitutional defences (Supreme Court is extremely politicised, corrupt and can just change it's interpretations of the constitution on a whim), the two party system is pretty much one capitalist party switching power between more extreme and less extreme wings every couple of years and it's all run but 70+ year old millionaires. US could very easily keep the thin layer of "democracy" and turn into dictatorship beneath it.
Yep, I think we agree on the danger - I think the quotation marks might be throwing people off. If we agree Russia is not a democracy and the US is risking becoming that, not sure why you're getting downvoted.
The Supreme Court wouldn't even need to be stacked. They have made it clear that the law means nothing. There will be some ruling that I dunno know someone didn't say the magic words when the two term limit was put in place and hence it doesn't apply.
Exactly, most of them would already 100% support the dictator. That was my point, US democracy is really fucking close to oligarchy already and it would be easy to take it over the edge.
Russia isn't technically nor consequently a democracy. They never have been either.
And the Emperor, who has not left the golden throne in 10,000 years, is still technically alive