Authoritarianism is surging. Can liberal democracy fight back?

BidenPresident said:
The US giving aid to Ukraine (which I do not support) does not make our nation fascist.
Click to expand...

yes it does. war is big business for armaments and other logistics and tech companies.

they fund the campaigns of ALL POLITICIANS to the extent that they achieve STATE CAPTURE.

State capture is a type of systemic political corruption in which private interests significantly influence a state's decision-making processes to their own advantage.

The term was first used by the World Bank, around the year 2000, to describe the situation in certain central Asian countries making the transition from Soviet communism. Specifically, it was applied to situations where small corrupt groups used their influence over government officials to appropriate government decision-making in order to strengthen their own economic positions; these groups' members would later become known as oligarchs.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capture
 
AssHatZombie said:
yes it does. war is big business for armaments and other logistics and tech companies.

they fund the campaigns of ALL POLITICIANS to the extent that they achieve STATE CAPTURE.

State capture is a type of systemic political corruption in which private interests significantly influence a state's decision-making processes to their own advantage.

The term was first used by the World Bank, around the year 2000, to describe the situation in certain central Asian countries making the transition from Soviet communism. Specifically, it was applied to situations where small corrupt groups used their influence over government officials to appropriate government decision-making in order to strengthen their own economic positions; these groups' members would later become known as oligarchs.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capture
Click to expand...

Okay, you quoted wiki. What about it?
 
BidenPresident said:
“We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/
Click to expand...

The so-called "liberals" are the source of the authoritarianism.

Shutdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, the Ministry of Truth, blocking the Truth from being shown and/or shared on social media, delibetae lying to Americans about nearly everything, ("Russian Collusion", "Russian Disninformation", etc. ) illegal changes to election laws by fiat, all from the so-called "liberals".
 
BidenPresident said:
Do you have a point?
Click to expand...

In this thread OP you insinuate you have a concern for the assaults on liberal democracies in the world, but your posting history is that we shouldn't lift a finger to help democratic Ukraine defend itself against an invasion from fascist Russia.


Seems incongruent
 
Cypress said:
In this thread OP you insinuate you have a concern for the assaults on liberal democracies in the world, but your posting history is that we shouldn't lift a finger to help democratic Ukraine defend itself against an invasion from fascist Russia.


Seems incongruent
Click to expand...

oh well
 
BidenPresident said:
“We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/
Click to expand...
such junk
Hungary is duly elected -Orban had a crushing victory. Biden cant even control his own party and this is
"the rise of authoritarianism?? LMAO
 
anatta said:
controlling speech? there's some fascism for you
Click to expand...

I would call it totalitarianism.

fascism strictly has to do with state/corporate collusion.

you could technically be fascist and still have free speech.

we've done that for a long time actually.
 
LurchAddams said:
The only answer I see now is that we split into 2 countries like Germany did decades ago. It's like the Civil War again. North against south.
Click to expand...

I’m in the wrong spot geographically unless South Florida can go w the north!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top