Den Amerikanern steht kein demokratischer Zusammenbruch bevor. Wir leben in den Folgen – die USA waren schon lange vor Trumps erster Amtszeit eine Oligarchie. Die Anerkennung dieser Realität ist für den Aufbau einer echten Demokratie von wesentlicher Bedeutung

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Agree with the point but the use of psychoanalysis thought here seems inappropriate and unnecessary to support it…

The author/writer is correct. Trump is not the cause but the symptom. He has been accelerating the process, just as how Regan accelerated the process to completely gut many things including worker rights, union rights etc.

Thanks FDR

And the worse people got screwed by coastal wealthy people, the more they distrusted their own neighbors.

Oligarchy?
It’s now a fascist dictatorship

From what the article emphasizes, we are already lost. Except for small groups banding together to help immigrants stay out of the reach of ICE. Do we band together now in groups to defy the Rump Regime and force our beliefs of democracy on the GOP cult? Through education? Through religion like the, ‚**Ideology:** It includes elements of Christian Nationalism—the belief that the U.S. is a Christian nation that should be governed as such, often rejecting strict separation of church and state‘. Are the two murdered victims by ICE in Minneapolis just to be forgotten, or do we stand together in revolt? Running on the 80-yr timeclock, and disabled but still comment and support as much as possible to the Anti-Fascists groups I can find. Tell us where and what to do, not defeat us by psychoanalyst before we even get started to gather together. And please do not forget that Antifa is an organized terrorist group bent on the destruction of what some have called Democracy. Lord help us, if you believe.

So long as we continue allowing them to do so, these schizofascists and Petrogarchs are going to go on subjugating us all. They mean to take the world for themselves and leave us all to die.

„We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***“

Thank you!!!

Finally!

This is so important. Many have a short-term memory and forget what lead us to today in the first place. It most definitely didn’t start with the Orange Turd and not going to end with him. This is the ’natural‘ result of everything wrong with this country the past several decades. The only good thing he’s done is holding a huge mirror but so many choose to look away. When will we be brave enough and honest enough to take a deep look and recognize the problem?

Completely removing money from politics would be a good place to start. And ffs make the rules enforceable and then *enforce them!*

Having raised a kid with ADHD, I know the sorry effects of not following through with the rules. Also, I’m not just talking about a single aspect here, I mean *all* avenues for corruption, where those in governance are tempted to make decisions based on who just greased their palms. That is, back to basics: no person in office shall retain private holdings, stocks or other financial appurtanences, nor shall they accept gratuities of other gifts, strictly monetary or otherwise, while in office; and of course, corporate lobbying would go the way of the dodo.

Its a start.

Ehhh. The author makes some good points but it’s also a little disingenuous. I would probably have placed US in the flawed democracy category rather than straight oligarchy. This kind of argument really only serves to normalize the current extremism happening at a large scale in the US. While yes, the US has had problems and challenges to its democratic system, nothing in US history really compares to what’s going on right now. If we have any hope on beating this, people need to recognize the moment, not just commiserate that things weren’t perfect before Trump.

To be a Republican means you reject Democracy, they would have to be in a decade long coma to not acknowledge this simple fact.

Oligarch dominance was I’D much further back