What is your line in the sand?

Edit: thank you all for your responses. I think it’s important as an American we take your view points seriously. I think of a North Korean living inside of North Korea. They don’t really know how bad it is because that is all hidden from them and they’ve never had anything else. As things get worse for Americans it’s important to have your voices because we will become more and more isolated.

Even the guy who said, “lol.” Some people need that sort of sobering reaction.

  • coaxil@lemm.ee
    201·
    23 hours ago

    Not at all, you are just an autocracy now but don’t fully realise it, and as the other commentator had said, not even really a good democracy in the loosest of terms before this entire mess going on ATM!

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
    461·
    22 hours ago

    Line in the sand? Going after political opponents. Censoring information. Dismantling media. Abandoning rule of law. Business and government mixing too much.

    USA is speed running these.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    44·
    18 hours ago

    An American, but it never was a democracy. It’s always been a republic with a few democratic mechanisms.

    Which is good, IMO, or we would’ve gotten here much sooner. Populism is where democracies go to die, and the mechanisms of a representative republic help keep your average idiots from collectively voting us there.

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
    42·
    14 hours ago

    For the time being, sure. I dint think democracy is a binary. Democracy doesn’t imply a fair system or universal suffrage or a system where power is split.

    Like for example the Vatican is a absolute monarchy and also a democracy.

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I know this isn’t Greek, but I immediately thought of pesos and I bet you some people are gonna be hella mad if you call the US a pesocracy

  • rpl6475@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    23 hours ago

    Elective dictatorship, there is no accountability. Is there even a mechanism for the public to recall the president? Or is that it for the next 4 years?

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      21 hours ago

      There is not. He would have to be impeached by the senate, and then convicted by the majority of the Senate. Since the majority are currently his sycophants, it’s effectively not an option.

  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 minutes ago

    I never considered it a democracy. It’s one-party system with two parties, what can be democratic about it? Smoke and mirrors.

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    14 hours ago

    Canadian here.

    Before Trump? Ehhh, not really. I’ve always viewed the US as a place where you vote for which oligarch-backed monarch you’d want to put in absolute power for 4 years. Every 4/8 years the new incoming overlord just rips up whatever the previous one did and nothing of substance is actually achieved.

    After Trump 2.0? No. There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Trump is going to surrender all that power he and the GOP have accumulated. And why would he? He doesn’t have to. He literally controls every branch of government that he can and ignores those that he doesn’t. If the US ever has another election it will purely be for show, like China’s elections. The mask is now fully off and the charade of US democracy is over as those who actually wield the power now do so openly on their sleeves.

  • Intergalactic@lemmy.world
    153·
    21 hours ago

    Absolutely not. A country where two parties are the only two viable electoral options, is absolutely not a democracy. Doesn’t mean I’ll stop my membership for the PSL.