• sunzu2
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    420 hours ago

    I don’t disagree… But that’s not how society operates historically or currently.

    Closest we ever came to that us post ww2 era in some countries.

    It has regressed into the circus we got eight now since then.

    Life is untenable for the majority already, it will get worse.

    • @Buffalox
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      19 hours ago

      I’m not sure, but I think maybe you are using USA as the norm, but USA is not a good example of a democracy, it is ranked as a FLAWED democracy. And it’s been my opinion for more than a decade that USA is ranked way too high. An essentially 2 party system is not a real democracy.

      Democracies that actually work are for instance the Scandinavian countries:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

      Life is untenable for the majority already, it will get worse.

      All the countries with the highest democracy ranks, have way less poverty than USA, also when USA is the far richer country, all have healthcare for all, free education, and also generally people have high satisfaction about their lives.

      I agree USA has devolved badly in many ways since the start of the 80’s. Hopefully it will turn around at some point. But it’s hard to see it taking on a lasting course for improvements without a pretty serious modernization of their democracy, and cleaning up the corruption and exaggerated power of the super rich.

      • sunzu2
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        220 hours ago

        same thing that US oligarchs are doing within US is happening across OECD jurisdictions.

        ie a broad assault on housing, education, healthcare and over all quality of life.

        Fertility rates speak for themselves… including in the normie’s beloved scandi geos.

        Swedish state is being dismantled as we speak too… and check this out, migrants are being used to do this lol can’t make this shit up.

        UK is turned into more dystopian version of US, outright war on the poors.

        German’s are having hard time maintaining their indsutrial base due to poor economic policy planning due to muttie Angela good work.

        France’s Macron is a neo lyb acolyte. EE is doing decent economically and developing but they are just now hitting EU avgs.

        neo lib regimes are working OT on dismantling any safety net they can get their hands on. “Democracy” aint stopping them, they polarized everything into America style left/right and gutting nations from within while making a few parasites can get wealthy