• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Yeah. I’m considering leaving the US if Trump wins again… but I highly doubt I’ll actually do it. Even with the Republicans, the US has one of the highest standards of living in the world (at least in my part of the country).

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      3 months ago

      I can’t comprehend how suseptible to corruption a democracy is. I tended to think that low education levels where to blame for this, but i dont think that anymore. Every democracy in the world seems to be on the brink of destruction, independently of how well prepared or not their population is. It’s 2, 4 or 6 years and then an ellection praying for the evil half of the voting pool not to win.

      In my country there were “barriers” put into our contitution to stop concentration of power and help in the small posibility of a freaking mafia taking over the government. They worked to some extent, but at some point, “that” 50% of the people started asking for those barriers to be overseen.

      A junta member from the 70s here paraphrased an old saying, “volks get the governments they deserve”. He was an asshole, but he was right.