(Disclaimer: I voted against Trump and anyone who supported him in my state.)

  • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I feel like the U.S. is becoming similar to Russia. For example, we are seeing an autocratic strongman holding the highest office and only vaguely behaving within the democratic system, with a clear intent to rule unilaterally with a congress and Supreme Court that are less checks and more support for maintaining the power base. And as generations continue to experience this way of life, America as a society will forget what it was like for the past 250 years where both parties respected the system with peaceful transfer of power.

    It’s sad, but fascinating in a kind of slow motion train crash to be alive for.