Die amerikanische Demokratische Republik ist gestorben. Es war 236 Jahre alt
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/us-democracy-dies-trump-236-years-20292708.php
Die amerikanische Demokratische Republik ist gestorben. Es war 236 Jahre alt
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/us-democracy-dies-trump-236-years-20292708.php
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> The American democratic republic, a modest British colony that transformed itself into the world’s richest country and greatest military power, has died.
> It was 236 years old.
> No official announcement was made of the end of the long-enduring republic, which was launched in 1789. No autopsy was scheduled.
> The proximate cause of death was America’s rapid decline in democratic governance. In March 2025, the director of Varieties of Democracy, a Sweden-based think tank, cautioned that the U.S. was on the verge of losing its status as a democratic republic.
It’s got a mortal wound, but it’ll only bleed out if we give up.
Don’t comply in advance.
Was fun while it lasted. Kind of.
I didn’t hear no bell
I wouldn’t be surprised if a MAGA GoFundMe grift comes with this sad announcement.
I think it’s getting close to the end, but it’s not there yet. America still has a chance if the masses mobilize…
Articles like this only increase apathy. Why do anything if it already dead?
What a stupid title. America’s not dead.
bro, you guys had segregation til the 1960s and still actively use prisoners as slave labour in like have the country. you were never an example of Democratic Republic.
Canadians mourn the loss of their former democratic neighbour, may she rest in peace. And hopefully not fuck things up too bad on her way out.
Once TV arrived on the scene, it became a cult of personality. Look at Reagan, probably the first one to exploit it.
Honestly almost 250 years is pretty good, heres hoping for a positive new chapter, and soon. There was a strange global trend toward fascism that seems to be cycling through, all stemming from Russian funding and social media propaganda but people are catching on now. The US did it too in the middle east and South America, so we have no ground to stand on calling Russia out. The war in Ukraine is more important than we realize, with Russia way more focussed on that I think we’d see a direct correlation to their failure there and the decrease in global fascism trends.
A bit dramatic. Constitutional crises are not good and we’re not in a great spot overall, but we’re not dead. It’s still entirely possible for Dems to win elections and get back to the work of stitching the country back together again like we had to do after Trump’s first term.
This lays solely at the feet of idiots who don’t vote.
It didn’t die. It was murdered. However, it has something no one can kill, human love of liberty. I’m hoping we can be resurrected.
The news of our country’s death has been highly exaggerated (Mark Twain).
Trump may have taken advantage of a deadbeat Congress to circumvent the legislative branch, but the secondary checks and balances in our system have yet to kick in – e.g. SC, state lawsuits, civil suits, disbarment. Also his poll numbers are rapidly heading into the danger zone, which might result in Congress waking up to do their job – or worse for him: a blue wave. He who lives by executive order, will likely die by executive order.
I am not saying we should be complacent or not worried. I just believe he is slowing tiring the noose around his own neck.
Most experiments do fail after all. At least we’ll live on as a cautionary tale.
Which one of you chronically online doomers posted this? These people have shown time and again that they will retreat with enough pushback. They can be defeated, but articles like this give in to exactly what they want.
I feel so stupid, I had to look up dates. So 1789 was when the government was officially formed, prior we lived under the articles of Confederation. This confused the heck out of me since we had a bicentennial in 1976. I get it now. The bicentennial was not for the forming of America, but for the signing of the declaration of independence. I am pretty well educated, but I was really confused for a bit when I saw the 236 years.
Divided Kingdom of America
Funny, these days we have a reminder that Vatican is an absolutist monarchy where king is voted in. I guess America is now another one and that useless paper they call US Constitution can finally be discarded by common people, not only be used for parts that some like…
„Constitutional Republic. Not a democracy.“ – Morons, probably.
That’s quitter talk. Trump is just one old man surrounded by sycophants and supported by fools. It will not be easy, but it it not impossible to reverse the damage that he does today.
Ha! It died a long time ago.
it died in 1898 when it continued the colonial rule of various countries; you can’t be “democratic” with colonies in your possession
This article is more MAGA/ russian propaganda disguised as a centrist opinion. Be aware that this is happening but don’t turn this into a fait accompli. That’s what they want people to do – they want people to give up resisting maga attempts to dismantle democracy by telling us we are wasting our time and effort.
When the Constitution is no longer being enforced, then it no longer exists
Our country is stronger than a goddam loser game show host. The people need to stand up and stop allowing him to continue.
Drowned in a bathtub
RIP…..if you elect a stupid person, you get stupidity.
Just another reason why the media is the enemy of the American people.
Complying in advance with the fascist administration
Pretty soon you’ll be reading articles praising the Supreme Leaders infinite wisdom as he carries us into the new American golden age of prosperity or some shit
They want us to capitulate, because they don’t have the balls to stand up
Stupid headline. It’s being severely tested. It’s not dead yet.
This was actually a sober article. Almost felt like I was reading it from 10 years in the future.
All of these publications are going belly up at the first chance they get – no fight, whatsoever. Something about all of them sanewashing trump for a decade and then turning around and saying “I did nothing and it didn’t work. RIP democracy” really ain’t sitting right with me. I’m not willing to let them win.
These publications are outing themselves as anti-democracy – the free press was intended to call out corruption and *fight* by stirring up the people.
I’m not willing to lose what made our country good and great – I will not live in an authoritative country just because others are giving it up before the fight even started.
The republican leadership and their voters believe the democracy ideology is a blip in the history of the republic of the United States. Democracy demands three coequal branches of government to make a law through judicial process against civilians. The republican leadership presented their mission statement called project 2025. The republican mission statement project 2025 is an authoritarian government using only the executive branch of state and federal governments. This authoritarian type of government is called fascism. Protect the civilians at all costs.
It died in 2010 when the Judicial branch forfeited it’s power to fight corruption. The system only works with 3 functional branches.
With two you get deadlock and one you get a dictatorship
I’m not about to give my country up to some moronic diaper wearing orange clown, who is more used car salesman than leader. What an obscene joke!
My father served this country magnificently for 30 years, he was a West Point Colonel, and for him & every veteran who did the same, I’ll go out fighting.
The American people need to get off of their video games & social media & get out in the streets. People have become way too soft.
There are far more of us than them!
He lost the popular vote again.
The majority of Americans voted for Kamala, not chump.
Magats also are waking up to his bullshit. Even the billionaires have become cry babies, lamenting to him about tariffs hurting their wittle businesses…. Awwww…
If the American people showed itself — in true fashion — we’d put an end to this bullshit quickly.
But, we have to do it together.
To be fair this was actually the case in January 2021, when Trump engaged in a plot to overturn the election results without facing any consequences. It’s simply not a democratic republic anymore when you never know when a leader will call a mob to your capitol building.
So we had a democratic republic before the end of enslavement and sufferage for Indigenous people and women? America has never had a real democracy, its still a work in progress and progress has halted.
I blame the corrupt and extremist rightwing members of the Supreme Court for ruining America, and rgb for not retiring when she had pancreatic cancer and a Democratic president. Citizens United, the appointment of George W Bush, and Presidential immunity destroyed any fairness.
I think America has to face up to the fact that democracy has failed. The US Constitution was a kludge, torn between high-minded talk about liberty and the economic advantage of chattel slavery. The fascist right has taken advantage of the flaws in the Constitution and the gullibility of many people to destroy the system.
2026 is the ultimate test. And there are a few possible outcomes for us:
1: We have a free and fair election in which the democrats take control back of Congress, and, hopefully, they begin the job of restoring our processes.
2: We have a free and fair election, and the people somehow still vote the keep the republicans in office, further emboldening Trump and his cronies.
3: we don’t have free and fair elections, and the republicans entrench themselves as a dictatorial party.
Let’s see, a Judge was arrested, *in her courtroom* using a warrant that NO ONE SIGNED but was authorized under the Alien Enemies Act, and under said law search warrants may also be executed without a Judge’s signature and without any aforethought or warning.
Anyone who comes into your home without authorization should be treated like the home-invaders they lawfully are. This is not hyperbole, this is the point we have reached. Saving an image of your birth certificate in your phone along with a physical and up-to-date passport will not stop an arrest, Due Process has ceased and our government is moving U.S. Citizens to be held in prisons in foriegn countries (something *specifically* named in the Declaration Of Independence) with no intention of them returning alive. CECOT and the Rwandan locations are Death Camps, boasted by their President has having this quality, and political enemies is next on the list with the investigation into ActBlue.
I recommend to everyone that they should start looking into IRC communication. Find your local major city’s channel (like #philly or #waco) and ask questions there. It may be one of the few non-survailed forms of communicating we have going forward.
The only ray of hope I could offer is that the rest of the world will know the truth about what happens here. Anonymous is going to make sure there will be a path for news and video to get out, to keep any possible global pressure towards stopping The United States from „speedrun oven any%“
It’s only dead if we don’t have a proper election in ‘28. The US Constitution is not meant to totally avoid awful leaders, it’s meant to limit them when they occur. So right now the republic is wounded and the next couple years are the golden hour where it will survive if we can stop the bleeding.
Not deas, just diseased and very, very ill. It’s time to be a white blood cell and immunity stuff.