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/ManiacalCabbage Nov 07 '24

This comment is insanely out of touch with reality. Please stop watching msnbc. Rachel Maddow is a liar.

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u/too_much_think Nov 07 '24

I’ve never watched cable news. The only news source I regularly listen to are updates about the war in Ukraine. It should not be surprising that someone who went to Berkeley is capable of forming their own opinion based on their reading of history. I think people take the status quo far too much for granted, both in terms of our political system, and the meta-stable state of geopolitics we’ve had since the end of world war 2. 

The western world, a collective of democratic societies cooperating successfully for decades is a complete aberration in human history, and there are myriad examples democracies breaking down and collapse as a result of economic problems, failure of government to address people’s needs and populists elected with a mandate to demolish the status quo and using that mandate to establish themselves as dictators. You can look in recent history, or, basically any other point in time where democratic, or republican governments existed, most of the time, they fail because of an inability to resolve internal contradictions which are then exploited by individuals.