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3. America is already a Post-Democracy.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 02:56 PM

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"A post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell. The energy and innovative drive pass away from the democratic arena and into small circles of a politico-economic elite." - Colin Crouch, 'Post-Democracy'

After Trump takes power, America will move closer to Anocracy, a form of government that is part democracy and part dictatorship.

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Dire Days: What if Trump Does Everything He's Promised--and the People Don't Care? [View all] Celerity Thursday OP

If Trump ends his term and our democracy is still working, he will be considered a failure by his foreign backers Walleye Thursday #1

They will love him more and blame us Fichefinder Thursday #2

I think the "foreign backers" thing has been overstated Algernon Moncrieff Thursday #4

I never really thought Putin had something on Trump except that Trump admires him and wants to go, which is the same as Walleye Thursday #5

Exactly Algernon Moncrieff Thursday #6

America is already a Post-Democracy. sop Thursday #3

I'll be dead... 2naSalit Thursday #7