There Is No “Both Sides” to Donald Trump’s Threat to Democracy
There Is No “Both Sides” to Donald Trump’s Threat to Democracy
Just because Republicans choose unreality doesn’t mean the media should ignore the facts of January 6.
What sucks is I’m sure no conservative reads Vanity Fair.
What sucks is I'm sure no conservative reads.
They might if Jennifer Connelly or Hannah Waddingham is on the cover, but you're right. They're not going to read think pieces like this.
One is oligarchy, one is fascist. American democracy is arguably dead long ago.
I get where you're coming from but wanting an option other than corporate politicians is very different from willingly electing your last president as a childish incompetent dictator.
It's a bit too reductive to turn the statement "American democracy has been dead a long time" to "we want more candidate options".
The real problem isn't some rhetorical or presentation problem, it's that we have hard data that public opinion has actually no influence on laws. Only people within the oligarchy (e.g those with massive amounts of capital) influence the law. That's not democracy, even if you present it as such by having people tick a box every 2/4 years.
To have a real democracy you need voting in ways that actually impacts people's day to day lives. By far the most influential version of this would be democracy in the workplace, but we don't have that, we have authoritarian dictatorships in the workplace. It's still legal to rent people with capital, it's legal to own forms of private, non-personal property (e.g factories), and as long as we have rules like these, organizations will be led by authoritarian capital, and not by grassroots democracy.
I mean... There is. But, Trump's side represents a much more imminent and intentional threat.
You mis-spelled Putin & Xi.
This is what I tell people:
Sure, one is rusty shitbox, but the other is radioactive rusty shitbox that is ALSO on fire.
In that case I will vote for rusty shitbox every fuckdamn day.
I think you've missed a few key conversations. When people say "both sides are bad" they're equating Biden's neoliberalism with Trump's fascism, as if they are equal in their destructive power. This article is clearing the air. Biden, for all of his faults, is far and away the least existential political threat to the USA.
Then the DNC better primary Biden and get someone in there thats not taking us further into war, and getting Palestinians slaughtered by the 10 of thousands.
I agree with you on the Palestine comment, however, that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. How would DNC primarying Biden in any way have an impact on how media and political parties are framing readily available and verifiable facts as debatable political points?
Because they're astroturfing and they are literally and ironically bothsidesing this issue.
If they weren't going to let Bernie work unmolested, they're not going to primary Biden.
Also: it doesn't matter who sits in the oval office both red and blue are ridiculously committed in supporting the IDF's staggering list of warcrimes.
People pretend that Trump didn't spend months sucking up to Netanyahu and moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
We're not in a war?
Hi, GOP astroturfer.
How binary of you to assume anyone critical of your senile rapist is Republican.
He's a threat to democracy, quick, make voting for him illegal!
It's been illegal for insurrectionists who have betrayed their oath of office to uphold the constitution to run for office since July 9, 1868 when the 14th amendment was approved. There is nothing quick about it.
If Donald Trump didn’t want to be removed from state ballots he shouldn’t have incited a violent insurrection when he lost last time.
This was an easily avoidable outcome.
No, you see, it's only democracy if you crawl up to people who make a literal coup attempt against a democratic government, put a shotgun in your mouth, and beg them to pull the trigger. THAT'S the true meaning of democratic government!
He's removed from ballots, people won't go to jail for voting for him, it's just more inconvenient to do so.
I mean, when you violate one of the few laws above all the branches that is regarding whether you're allowed to be elected....
Why exactly do you want to vote for a treasonous insurrectionist? Why should such a person be allowed to run?
Do you really think it's undemocratic to protect democracy from someone approaching fascism?
I dont. I dont like trump. I hope he gets convicted for his crimes. But so far he hasnt. People are direly minimizing how dangerous a precedent it is to bar a frontrunner candidate from an election. That is millions of Americans who are being told they cant vote for who they want to, by the opposition party. Later on Trump will preach to them about democracy being taken away from them, and theyll have quite the reason to believe him. This wont go well.