American democracy is doomed
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Incredible that this was written before even the first trump presidency, and it so elegantly captures this moment in time.

What are your thoughts? I don’t see how democracy in the US survives this moment. Can other democracies in the rest of the world live on alone, or will they too succumb to technofeudalism?

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    261·
    7 days ago

    It’s absolutely nothing against this absolutely phenomenal read, just something that hit me while reading:

    but Chilean democracy broke down in the 1970s.

    Yeah, that passive voice “broke down.” I wonder why that happened.

    The exact reasons for why are disputed among scholars

    Uh… okay, I get that American involvement is just totally unrelated to the topic of this article, but you don’t have to go out of your way to pretend it’s a big mystery. You can just use your passive voice and move on, to keep things focused.

    For a less catastrophic, more realistic view of the kind of thing that could happen here, it’s useful to look to some less-familiar but more-recent events in Honduras.

    OH, COME ON NOW

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      181·
      6 days ago

      What’s really funny is that they’re literally using the same kind of attacks and tools that they did to destabilize Chile.

      Ask Milton Fuckin Friedman about Economic Shock Treatment.

      It’s all the tools of American Imperialism brought back home to bear down on our own populace.

      When Bush took us to war in Iraq, I knew this was coming someday.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
        7·
        6 days ago

        Yeah. Down to including interfering with the election to put our guy in power to be able to do all this heinous stuff, over the strong objections of the populace.

        Somewhere, Augusto César Sandino is looking on with interest, watching how it’s going to play out.