Wann ist eine Demokratie keine Demokratie mehr?
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Von stinglikebutterbee
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Simple. When you can no longer vote government out of office.
> does the concentration of executive power under Donald Trump mean the US is no longer a free democracy?
Yes, in short. Whether that feeling is accurate, we’ll discover in November. >!It is.!<
When the government enacts laws that mandate that the population needs approval to protest.
In Romania, to protest the government you have ask the city hall for an approval to stage the protest! Like WTF?!?
Wherever you see police intervening on protesters simply for protesting that place is no longer kosher.
That was a good read, can recommend it.
When you’re threatened with sanctions and prison if you voice your concerns of an ongoing genocide.
What about the other question? The part where even if they stop being democracies, the dictator are voted in democratically and bare faced?
Maybe we should stop glazing over democracy.
When is a democracy no longer a democracy? The moment a right-wing majority (any kind of right) takes office in Parliament.
When it elects a Trump.
Personally, I agree with Aristotle on one count of his view on democracy: it is mutually exclusive with multiculturalism. The moment you have enough immigration for there to develop distinct ethnic voter blocks in your country, democracy starts going full bin and devolves into balkanization.
When it closes the borders because people don’t want to live in that country anymore.