Honestly I don’t know what’s going on in the USA. You’re so proud of your “democracy and freedom” yet one of your 2 political parties is able to effectively dismantle the entire thing in less than a decade. You’re now one election away from being a christofascist state.

…and yet you’re all just going to work tomorrow. You’re all doing pretty much nothing except “make sure you vote in 2024.” So I guess every 4 years you’re going to be one election away from a literal Nazi takeover?

I don’t know. Riot or something. I have no idea how you’re all coping so hard.

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    Few points to bring up here:

    Many Americans are very aware of the false democracy and lack of freedom in the states and have made and have been trying to make further legislative and cultural changes for generations.

    The Republicans have dismantled themselves, certainly, but they have not dismantled the institution of voting at all (the conservatives lost the previous election because of conscious voting).

    We’re not one election away from a christofascist state, any more than any other country is, anyway. The fascism was literally voted out last election, the bungling, violent rioters are condemned across the nation and are undergoing legal punishments and widespread vilification.

    The christo part of your accusation is completely absurd: in 50 years, Christians have fallen from over 90% of the population to just over 60%, at a steadily increasing rate. In addition to that, people who identify as non-religious over the last 50 years has shot up from 5% to 30%.

    Religious parties are losing numbers every year, at a steadily increasing rate.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-religious-composition-has-changed-in-recent-decades/

    As for work, Americans are conditioned by their education and their culture to work no matter what, we have an insane work ethic that does not benefit the workers; that is actually why the UAW strikes and all the recent strikes are so important, because workers have to remember that their civil rights are more important than the profits of their exploitative capitalist masters.

    America is not one election away from a Nazi takeover, which happened while Germany was at some of its lowest points with regard to economy and social awareness, with no local or foreign opposition to or awareness of the Nazi party. The USA has an incredible economy right now, there are civil rights and workers rights movements happening right now that are changing the entire country, and since the Nazi party up to this year, there are new legislative protections against hate groups and a worldwide and American awareness of and opposition to Nazis and other hate groups rising to power.

    Americans are rioting, but more importantly they are voting out fascists and raising awareness, and the majority of them want a better country and a better world for everyone.

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      All of these are excellent points and I’ll also note (to the OP) that the US has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the world. In some states, like California, we all get Vote by Mail ballots and so basically everyone can easily vote if they want to. In other states, they’ve gone as far as making sure counties with primarily minority populations only get one polling station, open for like 10 hours during the actual election day (Tuesday), and of course election day isn’t a work holiday. Think of how that skews the actual voter demographics. That’s why we’re recently* so close to fascist takeovers, the people who actually genuinely need help from the government are effectively unable to participate in the election process so that they can vote for a government that will help them, because they’re busy working, or they don’t have a car to get to the singular polling location, or there’s no way they can get childcare while they stand in line for hours.

      Edit: changed always to recently – my brain has been skewed by the recency of the Reagan era onwards, but yeah it hasn’t always been this way, whoops