People with left-wing beliefs are “enemies of civilization,” said Miller in a speech with numerous McCarthyist echoes.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164

In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…

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  • ZMoney
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    9 hours ago

    I don’t actually think so. There are democratic elements but the president isn’t elected by popular vote. There’s universal suffrage but in practice a large percentage of the population is disenfranchised. There’s no power of recall in most instances of public office. Then there are the practicalities of running for office which only allows for a small elite… at what point do you still get to call this a democracy given all of its republican and oligarchic features?

    • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe
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      4 hours ago

      How is that any different from any other democracy? The term was birthed in Athens where only free men could vote and in practice the oligarchy held must of the power. There’s always been a hypocrital element to the word.

      That doesn’t mean we should surrender to magat word games.