Congress has basically conceded its power to a pedophile.

And to a bunch international mobsters relying on the motherfucker not only to have the US collapse on itself but also dismantle the embargoes and subpoenas aimed against them.

Country goes down, they’ll have a field day. Interpol would also become toothless as transnational crimes are no longer pressurized.

Yup.

We’re becoming Russia 2.0 and there’s a pretty slim chance of that not happening.

America was warned. America chose not to listen.

Actual fascists are in control of our federal government and under no circumstances do fascists allow fair elections. We’re most likely cooked unless something extreme happens.

It’s not too late to do anything, but it’s too late to do it through political channels.

It’s not just “the guy,” it’s the party. This has been thinly veiled since at least they stole the 2000 election. Right after they took that despite voter suppression, removing valid voters from rolls, understaffing democratic districts with defective machinery they may have sabotagaed on purpose,( ie not emptying the “hanging chads” from the container, the machine punched holes, didn’t work when bin full.) They also physically threw away ballots from Broward and Miami-Dade. Then they shipped a violent mob in to Miami to shut down the vote count.

Other stuff too, but all while the democrats did nothing outside of court. In court they hired the most high powered respected lawyers they could, that’s what they did in it’s entirity. No speeches about Voters Decide Elections Not Courts! Thundering from a pulpit. No denunciations of the underhanded tactics, dangers to our way of life, the arrogance of the steal. The didn’t ship in their own partisans to protect election workers, didn’t organize any protests to speak of.

They just let their valid concerns be fillibustered by the republicans, that ran out the clock, and threatened violence, and the latter is what won over Ruth Bader Ginsburg that crossed over and sided with the conservatives allowing them to run out the clock with bush up 500 votes or whatever it was, despite valid votes many times greater than that not counted because of the hanging chads, the hole punches not removed completely because the trays were not emptied and whatever else. They didn’t find the thrown out votes even as it was rumoured dumpsters were full of votes in some districts. There were a lot of votes that no reasonable person could argue shouldn’t be counted, that were lawfully cast with no fault of voters, that weren’t counted.

Ginsburg apparently crossed over after having been afraid of political violence, in general. So anwering the brooks brothers riots, even after the fact, could have changed everything. Organizing your own partisans to camp out with election officials, to protest, to call out anyone involved in the brooks brothers riots, could have prevented everything.

But they stole it, and right after started their Voter Integrity, Voter Fraud campaigns, accusing regular people of fake voting, and made laws demanding ID, demanding proofs of ID and citizenship and tools to remove voters from rolls before elections.

The president just commandeered the system, and made it so obvious in your face the democrats couldn’t well ignore it during election season at least. But none of this ends with him. They will be stealing elections unless they are stopped. We had stopped them in 2021 but decided not to, so everyone gave up fighting because we were doomed.

They have since 2001, at least. Diebold, who made the original computerized voting machines was owned by Dick Cheney.

I can see how it’s scary for people. No one wants to believe that their state or country is a battleground. It’s easy to say hey you all got guns get civil warring from the outside. As a person where do you step in? Where’s the line?

• When it affects your moral outrage?
• When the politicians corruption and/or perverse behaviours are brazenly being displayed?
• When it affects your disposable income?
• When your fav barista disappears?
• When you see your fellow citizen being executed on the street?

For most of the modern Western world I’m gonna say we are post third point. USA has demonstrated it ramps up quick and a vast majority are tolerating it.

Our countries are not safe from falling into facism eirher

Honestly, knowing American culture and how lots of us refuse to recognize how food prices rent healthcare etc. things that usually top issues are consequences of politics and government, one-third saying “Actually the government is my biggest problem” is a really high number

I wish it was higher as well but unfortunately it’s not surprising. These things seem to fall into the same average, and not just the US, it’s in Canada too; one-third is rational, one-third is irrational, and one-third is apathetic.

America ended when citizens united passed, if not farther back. Blaming the voters is facile. If you need facile things, by all means.

Always shift blaming. The system is so trash that a ton of people no longer care. Irresponsible voters are the worst people

Election participation in US is on similar level to European countries. The turnout is even similar to countries with mandatory voting. Americans do vote, that’s no the problem. The problem is that the system is archaic, was shitty to begin with and over time was abused and rigged beyond repair. The problem is that propaganda replaced education long time ago.

I’m my opinion the last time to fix it and save the country was after the civil war. If people recognized back then that system incapable of protecting basic human rights is useless and reformed it properly USA would be a totally different country right now. They didn’t and since then it’s collapse was just a matter of time.