It sucks that we all have to live through it, but I feel like the current times in the US are a really interesting test of the sort of limits of democracy. By that I mean, what happens if the majority of the population just willingly elects the worst person they can find, and at the same time every check, balance, rule and tradition that everyone assumed would keep things on the rails just… turn out to be kind of bullshit because nobody is willing to enforce them?
It raises all sorts of weird questions, like at a certain point is it okay to overrule democracy in some way to protect the country and the people, even if the majority seem to want to just run the bus off a cliff? And what about the people who didn’t vote for this? Are they expected to just go down with ship or have to leave their home country altogether? An informed and engaged populace is vital to a healthy democracy, but what if enough people are uninformed/propagandized enough that they just willing take down the whole country? Does the rest of the world just let it implode?
I have no real answers to these questions, but I’d love to be studying this whole situation from like 100 years after it’s all over.
How do you figure he’s taking their guns away? Don’t get me wrong, I think that would be nice if he did, I think it might the only thing that will wake them up.
Hey, so all the people who told me they need their guns “to fight tyranny”… They’re gearing up, right?
No, because “tyranny” to them means “things I don’t like.” They like Trump’s tyranny.
It sucks that we all have to live through it, but I feel like the current times in the US are a really interesting test of the sort of limits of democracy. By that I mean, what happens if the majority of the population just willingly elects the worst person they can find, and at the same time every check, balance, rule and tradition that everyone assumed would keep things on the rails just… turn out to be kind of bullshit because nobody is willing to enforce them?
It raises all sorts of weird questions, like at a certain point is it okay to overrule democracy in some way to protect the country and the people, even if the majority seem to want to just run the bus off a cliff? And what about the people who didn’t vote for this? Are they expected to just go down with ship or have to leave their home country altogether? An informed and engaged populace is vital to a healthy democracy, but what if enough people are uninformed/propagandized enough that they just willing take down the whole country? Does the rest of the world just let it implode?
I have no real answers to these questions, but I’d love to be studying this whole situation from like 100 years after it’s all over.
Nope, Trump is also taking their guns away
It’s funny actually (in a bad way)
How do you figure he’s taking their guns away? Don’t get me wrong, I think that would be nice if he did, I think it might the only thing that will wake them up.
I remember watching a privacy-advocate video & it was during his first term