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Democratic backsliding (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Looks like it takes a world war or an empire to collapse set things right again 👍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Basically.

We just had what was likely our last chance to correct course without a significant amount of suffering and we utterly failed. An extremist party that literally ran on fundamentally changing our government now has total control. We don't deserve democracy, and now we might actually lose it.