I’ve pointed this out elsewhere, but if I’m going to have something of a megaphone, this needs to be endlessly pointed out. What is happening is not normal, and the more we normalize it, the more they win.
We are in the late Weimar. Some 248 years was a good run, but this is no longer a democracy, and the sooner people realize that, the better.
This is not hyperbole. And fuck off with “we were always a republic.” So was Rome until exactly this inflection point. Learn some fucking history.
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1629536
We’re already a third-world country. You just don’t see it if you’re not in poverty-stricken areas.
What’s your point? In relation to this conversation what are you trying to say? I don’t disagree with you, but why are you bringing it up now, in this discussion?
Because so many people don’t realize how far we’ve already fallen. I’m going to beat this drum, over and over, for mostly the choir, but when I was in a newsroom, I viewed it as a win if I could make a few people more informed. It’s why I’m here and volunteered to mod.
Data like these are no longer reliably being reported by local outlets, so why not use a platform to do so?