How did the greatest democracy in the world get here?

[Soph0571]

Where have we seen images like that before...

HHHMMMM.



Same shit different century.

How did the greatest democracy in the world get here?

[Mars and Minerva]

1. That's easy. 40% of the USA are racists and bigots and they think this is great.

Some are rabid and others just feel a little better about themselves when others suffer.

It's not just White Christians. I have a client who is Jewish and his wife is Black. They are avid Trump supporters because they hate immigrants from Central America and China.

The problem isn't Trump, the GOP or Foxnews. Democracy got like this because of Americans.

[RKP5637]

2. Quite true. If Americans were not this way, there would be no support for Trump! Quite pathetic. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Add that the GOP's weakening of middle class where everyone is struggling to provide for families.

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One of the objectives of fascists is to make people work incessantly to provide for their families, to the point where they no longer have free time to protest, read up on the current state of affairs, participate in government proceedings, etc.

Now, people are either working multiple jobs, longer hours and often work at a faster pace. They are tired when going home, and then they are more prone to accept bullshit about takers, especially when they go after people who suffer from the same economic condition they are experiencing.

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[Mars and Minerva]

18. Boo Hoo. I work hard seven days a week but I manage to put time in to protest...

phone bank and vote. Work and worry didn't turn any of my friends into Foxnews sheeple. I'm tired of excusing these assholes. Giving them free time isn't going to enlighten them. They need to be run over by a really big golf cart.

[mountain grammy]

9. Exactly!

[Baitball Blogger]

3. This happened because we were never honest about the direction that our policies were taking.

In retrospect, we will say that America was intentionally running under an unconstitutional premise, holding back anyone that didn't fit into a dominate white male culture. Simply, we were a nation of hypocrites.

[FakeNoose]

7. I'm afraid that too many Americans have become the "Good Germans"

... who looked the other way and quietly supported Hitler in the 1930's.

Just as an explanation, none of the "good German" Hitler supporters of the 1930's had any idea that there would be a Holocaust or even a World War II. They just believed that communism was their biggest threat and they didn't protest when all their troubles got blamed on the Jews. Hitler provided the answers and it became so easy to just go along. Nobody turned over any rocks to see the creepy-crawlies underneath. Yes it is hypocrisy, but also fear combined with the delusion that easy answers are also the correct ones.

[RKP5637]

19. Exactly!!!!!!!!! n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. 'Twas ever thus. The history of this country is a racist and bloody one.

[bearsfootball516]

6. Death of the Fairness Doctrine

Brought us right-wing talk radio and Fox News, which over decades, created a generation of very angry, white older males.

[live love laugh]

15. This and the consolidation of the media in the 80s.

[Martin Eden]

8. It's a failure of education

The ignorant are easily misled.

[malaise]

10. Just because the USS claimed it was the world's greatest democracy

doesn't mean that it was...just saying.

[live love laugh]

16. But it was way better than now. nt

[malaise]

17. On that we agree

[pdsimdars]

11. I guess when leaders fail to do their duty and fight back, things slip . . incrementally, by the way

[SidDithers]

12. "Greatest democracy in the world" might be overselling it a bit...

The world's a pretty big place.

Sid

[Soph0571]

13. Yeah. Maybe the largest would have been better?

[DavidDvorkin]

14. No, that's India.