It Can Happen Here—and Everywhere: Democracy Is in Global Retreat
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We could all be happy and content but no, no, these greedy fucking parasites need to ruin the world...
Democracy is under siege. It is not retreat. Democracy has yet to begin fighting at all.
The Epstein class needs to go. The world can’t afford these parasites
We need to bleed the earth of some right-wing cockroaches every 80-100 years. It's time again.
No, psuedo democracies have failed and are taking their natural course.
It's not democracy that's in retreat, it's the EuroCentric imperialist system in retreat because it is losing on nearly every dimension. And when the imperialists start losing, they lean hard into liberal power structures and abandon abstract liberal values, which the privileged members of those societies read as fascism. In actuality the control structures liberal societies apply to its oppressed members are the same as the ones they apply to privileged members when they are in retreat.
You want democracy? Overthrow liberalism.
Ah yes, its EuroCentric imperialism to want to preserve the environment and the sovereignty of indigenous people that live there.
Trying to stop power from being consolidated into a single corrupt individual who threatens other countries, implements rightwing, religious, and authoritarian policies is just the imperialists attempting to hold power. We need a
führergeneral secretarypresident like that who will usher in real democracy.Corporate, private interests are the exact opposite form of power to democracy. We cannot keep democracy and allow private wealth holders to maintain their individual influence. Anywhere private power concentrates is a threat to the group power that democracy is. Individual power is the most personal self-interest, the cruel, the narcissistic, the psychopath, the sociopath, these are the biggest threats to everyone else and are the root manifestation of power concentration and democratic dissolution. Corporate power and business power must be brought to heel or the loss of democracy is inevitable. There are no democratic corporations.
I didn't even need to check what instance you were on before knowing what instance you're on.