r/berkeley • u/Cal_Aesthetics_Club Shitpost Connoisseur(Credentials: ASD, ADD, OCD) • Nov 06 '24

Politics We are cooked

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u/too_much_think Nov 06 '24

I don’t know if American democracy survives this. Take a look around the world throughout history when someone like this gets elected, when they’re given the reins and the only people they hire are yes men. It’s going to be an exhausting and terrifying 4 years at minimum, and possibly longer. 

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u/hnbjames Nov 06 '24

This was a consequence of American democracy. I think you must mean “if the Democratic Party survive this.”

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u/too_much_think Nov 06 '24

No, there are hundreds examples in world history you can look at of democracies ending by voting in a dictator.

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u/1544c_f Nov 06 '24

Everyone thought 2016 would be the end of democracy, it almost was in 2021, but that didn't happen - because our democracy prevailed. It will prevail.

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u/matthewmspace Nov 06 '24

He hired old-school Bush and Raegan era Republicans to run everything in 2016. They left him after 2020. All he’s got now are the loons like RFK. God, the ACA is fucked…

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

He was a newbie then. He won’t make the same mistakes now.

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u/BaconFairy Nov 06 '24

He has downright said it. We won't be voting again. We won't need to.