Why This Election Is the Most Crucial Since the Civil War
Why This Election Is the Most Crucial Since the Civil War
Matt Bennett, co-founder of national think-tank Third Way, tells The New Abnormal why a second Trump presidency would be a “catastrophe” and leave America “unrecognizable.”
“It seems like every cycle we say that and we kind of mean it but this time I think we are in a category change where I believe the United States and the way that we think about ourselves as a nation has not been in danger like this since 1865. I think the only comparable moment to this was the Civil War,” he tells The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie.
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It’s always the most important, when half the elected officials are a majority away from dismantling democracy completely
You don't live in a democracy. You never did.
Really adding to the conversation here. Great job elaborating
This fucking liberal doesn't understand that bourgeois democracy is just a dictatorship of the rich
Hell yeah, gotta make a ton of assumptions about every statement. Precision in language has never helped any discussion ever.
Are there stickers in this app, or do y’all just maintain a collection?
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It’s amazing how agro y’all are. Yall just circle jerking some cheap memes and calling them unironically powere? So fucking cringe
You really think I was being 100% serious?
I’m not even from Hexbear. I don’t have them either.
Oh word, hey thanks for the tip.
Ya never know! I’m on mobile so i can’t see the @
You're not saying anything new, and what you're saying is so basic, that there is no reason to validate it by giving it serious thought. Maybe if you didn't post the most milquetoast doofus takes you'd actually be given the time of thought
No assumptions can be made about someone that is smugly dodgy and evasive and doesn't apparently stand for anything but their own superiority
I responded with the same verbosity as your original comment
Unfortunately your comment has far more possible meanings and so means less. Since its impossible to disprove or even really interpret the meaning
What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
Oh cool, thought you were one of those, “we live in a republic durrr” people.
Yeah USA is an oligarchy fosho, but there’s still a long way down lol, which is what i meant by dismantling completely
I would only note that the people who do the "We're a Republic, not a democracy" bit only say this because it justifies the repression and disenfranchisement. It's a feature, not a bug, to them.
Even on the ground of their own choosing, most Americans do not actually want democracy, and they never did.
Yeah, agreed. Really irks me and I’ve been hearing it alot. Hence my earlier sarcasm.
I don’t think it’s most americans though, idt most are active in politics lol
I agree with you, it's not most americans.
around 70% of Americans want single-payer healthcare, and under a democracy they would have it
I think the dorks aggressively defending the status quo online tend to be well-off, whether liberals or conservatives.
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Dude, read my comments below the other guy who actually said shit and didn’t just circle jerk memes at me. Literally just thought he was claiming the republic argument which has been popping up everywhere.
New here and didn’t realize this was a far left instance so i interpreted his statement the same way i would on instagram. Which is it’s vague and could be used as propaganda for disenfranchisment
