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Are we witnessing the demise of Democracy in America?

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Among the most unsafe sins of democrats stuck in an unfortunate situation are haughtiness and lack of concern. The serious polarization of American governmental issues—to the point where Trump's bolster base gives off an impression of being staying with him in spite of his inexorably hostile to law based explanations and the mounting claims of his sexual manhandle of ladies—is one indication of the inconvenience Americans are in. Devotion is another. Review Trump's announcement in Nevada in February about the power of his support:“Sixty-eight percent would not leave under any circumstance. I think that means murder. I think it means anything.” Maybe most irritating of all are the signs that quite a long while before the ascent of Trump, support for majority rules system had started to decay fundamentally, particularly among youngsters, and not just in the U.S. be that as it may, in Europe too.

Vote based systems come up short when individuals lose confidence in them and elites forsake their standards for immaculate political preferred standpoint. In The Breakdown of Just Administrations, the late Yale political researcher Juan Linz focused on two figures the disappointment of popular government. One is the development of "backstabbing restriction"— government officials, gatherings, and developments that preclude the authenticity from claiming the popularity based framework (and its results), that will utilize drive and extortion to accomplish their points, and that will diminish the sacred privileges of their political enemies, regularly by delineating them as "instruments of outside mystery and conspiratorial gatherings." However in any event as awesome a threat, Linz cautioned, was "semiloyal conduct" by gatherings and lawmakers willing "to energize, endure, conceal, treat mercifully, pardon or legitimize the activities of different members that go past the cutoff points of tranquil, honest to goodness … legislative issues in a majority rules system." It is currently reasonable as well as important to ask whether those in Donald Trump's gathering who neglect to censure his vote based traitorousness are not themselves doing incredible harm to American vote based system.

In 1935, as Hitler was combining totalitarian govern in Germany and the demagogic Representative Huey Long was get ready to keep running for president in the U.S., Sinclair Lewis distributed a novel about a magnetic populist congressperson who is chosen president by promising to reestablish the nation to thriving and enormity and afterward transforms into a tyrant. The title of Lewis' book was It Can't Occur Here. For the greater part a century, Americans have gaily accepted that majority rule government is so established in their standards and foundations that not at all like that could occur here. On the off chance that Americans don't reestablish their dedication to vote based system most importantly divided contrasts, it can.
 
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Probably not. I hope Canada & EU stand up to Trump & don't look the other way for a bribe.
 
Over reaction. It will all die in another 12 months or till the next oil crusade by USA
It's anything but an over-reaction.

America have inaugurated a president whose mental life is a thing of television ratings, beauty pageants and egoistical make-believe, who threatens and gloats and holds grudges and wants everyone to know it, whose impulses are alarming and alarmingly incoherent. He lacks the kind of knowledge of history and civic life and decent manners most adults have acquired by paying at least glancing attention, and with American Constitutional Democracy already under crisis anything is possible.
 
This guy is the most mendacious politician I have ever come across, lying and lying and attempting to discredit the press so that nobody believes them when they finally produce evidence for impeachment.

The scary thing is that his supporters do not care.
 
This guy is the most mendacious politician I have ever come across, lying and lying and attempting to discredit the press so that nobody believes them when they finally produce evidence for impeachment.

The scary thing is that his supporters do not care.

I think it's a fact of life that all politicians lie some of the time.

Trump sticks out because the "alternative facts" are so blatant, but most of the time it's just a matter of a simpleton obtaining his own information from a narrow range of (partisan) sources. Which is reminiscent of Reagan and even W.

If you look back at our country, it's obvious that the leaders of all parties - even David Steel - used to gloss over paedophile scandals in order to have control over their MP's. And even though I'm an ardent defender of the Falklands, it's blatantly obvious that the government lied about the sinking of the Belgrano. Which is ironic - had they said "it was outside the Exclusion Zone, sailing away but we decided that sinking it would shorten the war" I'd have been all for it.

In a way, it's a really nice thing that our American cousins tend not to care about such things. I'm pretty sure that had we been in their situation, we'd have planted WMDs in Iraq. But with the Americans they actually tend to be truthful, whereas we probably are less so.
 
This guy is the most mendacious politician I have ever come across, lying and lying and attempting to discredit the press so that nobody believes them when they finally produce evidence for impeachment.

The scary thing is that his supporters do not care.

Trump is not a politician. He's not even a real CEO. He's a celebrity who is used to people cheering for him whenever he show his face in public. He is not used to people questioning him. Imo his attacks on the media are his pathetic attempts to preserve his self worth. From what I've read he has always been this thin skinned.

His supporters are crazy. They have made up this image of him which is contrary to the truth.
 
I think it's a fact of life that all politicians lie some of the time.

Trump sticks out because the "alternative facts" are so blatant, but most of the time it's just a matter of a simpleton obtaining his own information from a narrow range of (partisan) sources. Which is reminiscent of Reagan and even W.

If you look back at our country, it's obvious that the leaders of all parties - even David Steel - used to gloss over paedophile scandals in order to have control over their MP's. And even though I'm an ardent defender of the Falklands, it's blatantly obvious that the government lied about the sinking of the Belgrano. Which is ironic - had they said "it was outside the Exclusion Zone, sailing away but we decided that sinking it would shorten the war" I'd have been all for it.

Belgrano was zig-zagging outside the edge of the Exclusion Zone, approaching the RN task force and trying to trap it in a pincer movement with the Argentinian carrier group.

Anyway, even by the low standards of politicians Trump is uniquely mendacious, behaving like a dictator in regard to his messaging. The attitude of his supporters horrifies me.
 
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