The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.
The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.
Which in my view is not that different from any other county historically falling under dictatorship. Most of them has for one or another reason wanted the dictator in charge initially and welcomed the overlord.
Not true, that is mostly one dictator replacing another. Democracies turning authoritarian is not common since the fascists and Nazis pre WW2.
And Nazism taking over in Germany was a pretty violent affair, and far from merely winning an election.
America wasn’t a democracy or the majority of Americans who oppose military aid to Israel would’ve had an opportunity to vote. It’s a plutocracy with democratic components (if you’re feeling generous, “democratic theater” if you’re not).
They call it a representative republic.
Democracy has never been tried at a scale the size of the US. But I’d argue that it was the end goal on many who penned the US constitution, that it’s well past the point where it could have been reached, and that over and again it’s been held back by fools.
The document which only granted white, land-owning males the right to vote?
I think you’re a bit immersed in the mythology of American exceptionalism.
Communists in Czechoslovakia were democratically voted in after war. Then they turned the country into a totalitarian shithole.
No it wasn’t. Czechoslovakia became Communist through a political coup.
1948 Czechoslovak coup d’état:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d’état
This happened because Czechoslovakia was invaded and controlled by an authoritarian regime.