Has democracy ended in the U.S.?

[Bengalzona]

(07-02-2018, 10:10 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I do want to say that the current state of our democracy is an interesting one that a lot of people tend to have misconceptions about. We're seeing a similar pattern currently to what we have seen in some South American countries with demagogues that have stripped countries of their democratic systems. But we're at a crossroads. Right now it has been mostly talk, very little action. So we have time to right this ship and put us back on course. The problem is that the current batch of elected officials are not the cause of this, they are merely a culmination of decades of this bullshit that both parties have been guilty of. The erosion of norms in our institutions has been on a steady roll since the late '60s and while Trump has currently cranked up the volume, the system was broken before he came on the scene.

Oh boy! Death Squads! Yay!