RE: mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116271471…
As people have been saying, Americans, you need to get over that "This is not who we are" bullshit right fucking now - because this is so much who you are; you were so ready for it, that the world's stupidest person could dictator you 5-10 times faster than any other despot & while not missing a single golf break.
Don't like it? Do something about it.
“‘For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’…
US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.
Worldwide, democracy has receded to its lowest levels since the mid-70s. ‘The world has never before seen as many countries autocratising at the same time’
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A record 41% (3.4 billion) of the world’s population currently resides in countries where democracy is deteriorating, the report claims, adding that Washington is leading this global turn away from democracy.”
The very fucking *least* you can do right now is not comply in advance.
Yes, I’m looking at you, tech folks.
theguardian.com/world/commenti…
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin GelinMartin Gelin (The Guardian)
