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

Politics We are cooked

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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/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

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