Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin
👉 Remark: The article is about the U.S. and Europe, despite the title.
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin
👉 Remark: The article is about the U.S. and Europe, despite the title.
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It’s insane to me that over the past few decades we allowed the state to construct an entirely parallel national police and judicial system subject to total executive authority, and that very few people objected to this in any major way until 2025.
I mean the underpinnings of this system, even before it was dramatically expanded and abused by Trump seem so blatantly unconstitutional it’s shocking. How can you have a separate judicial system for certain classes of people nested within the executive branch? Is that not a clear violation of separation of powers? How can we arrest and forcibly imprison or deport people without warrants? What happened to the 4th amendment? What the fuck were people thinking? Was it not obvious where this would lead?
For myself, I can only plead ignorance. I really did not investigate how our immigration system worked until I had cause to, and now that I’ve become educated I’m just incredulous that our elected leaders and judges created such a blatantly authoritarian system. And that no one who knew about it seemed to care for so long. Or at least no one with any power or influence.
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The main problem being that most Americans are one paycheck away from starving.
Without reforms they will always be one paycheque away from starving.
Yes, it’s a real catch-22.
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Again, there’s no support structure, so even striking in unison means that most people end up with nothing almost immediately.
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Those who make pacific change impossible risk violent revolutions.
Don’t forget that there is no healthcare without employment.
The U.S. Constitution is total shit and should be completely scrapped and re-written. The problem is I don’t trust any of these partisan fools in congress to be educated enough to draft a new one.
The fervent worship of the founding fathers and the document itself as a holy-adjacent collective/artifact is absolutely why we have problems adapting our laws to the 21st century.
We objected to it. We also quickly realized that it never ends as a democracy, and a republic in name only.