Democracy in decline worldwide, new report says

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.world – 582 points –
Democracy in decline worldwide, new report says
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Republican have gone completely nuts for Authoritarianism for some reason???

two reasons:

  1. in 2010 they got to gerrymander the fuck out of districts and thus got a whole bunch of safe seats where even total wackos can win primaries and then go on to safely win the general

  2. the republican's whole ideology and support base is crumbling away and it's basically unstoppable at this point. old racists who fondly remember jim crow are all retired and young people are leaving christianaity at a consistent rate of around 1%/year. their economic policies are totally out of whack with what the bottom 90% need or want and no one believes tax cuts on the rich will benefit anyone but the rich. their only hope is overthrowing the government and installing a dictator and everyone knows it

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