When Culture Breaks, Democracy Won’t Be Far Behind.
The United States is in danger of no longer being a Democracy.
"...the significance of President Trump, who exhibits the three classic symptoms of totalitarianism: a charismatic leader surrounded by a personal cult, the identification of the state with himself and a refusal to accept the legitimacy of opposition or dissent. The result is a regime of discretionary government in place of the government of laws that the founders saw as the chief defense against tyranny."
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"There have been demagogues before in American history. Until now, they have failed. Political parties had enough respect for the workings of the democratic state to freeze them out.
The many friends of the United States must hope that the experience of autocratic government will persuade voters to restore the country’s democratic tradition and truly make America great again."
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Yes.
Unless we do not let that happen. We may be asked to do things we have not done.
We lost. Democracy is over.
Right now all that is left is the resistance.
We're kind of like that football fan bitching about the last call of the season not going our way and that's why we lost. The two party system is dead, and the Democrats killed it, from within the party.
It's over, let's move on.