Even Russia is a “democracy”.

Spoiler: they won’t, but meanwhile Republicans will promise to (BBB lowers taxes on tips and such, thereby incentivizing those styles of employment at the expense of the middle class).

It seems to me more like a game of “chicken” - you wouldn’t really vote for the other side, would you? (Immediately votes for other side.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn’t like, do exactly that yet again, would you? (Immediately does that again.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn’t like, do exactly that still yet also again, would you? (Repeat.)

This is what people miss about conservatives: they seem to be getting things done. When you have a single-minded focus on a particular thing, like abortion, then regardless of whether you should have done so or not you are going to get it done when you put in the level of time and effort that was done.

Never mind that it was a cover for lowering taxes on the wealthy - The People voted for it, and so got both in the same package. In contrast, the Dems seem to stand for… what exactly? Besides being merely less obvious about making payments to corporations?

Survival of the Fittest for now looks like it has doomed the USA Democrats. We’ll see if it has doomed democracy itself (this one globally). All I know is that afaik no democracy in history has ever survived devolution into a 2-party system - the parties each merely claim that they are not the other side, which incentives them to avoid actually doing anything themselves, which causes systemic collapse (hrm, sounds familiar somehow…).

I wish I could see a way out of this.

Bonus points that Demo(n)crats may even cease to exist entirely (Trump says his win gives ‘mandate’ for ‘far reaching investigation’ into Democrats).

“Whoopsie, ah… I mean… success?”

So all you would have to do to avoid this fate would be to pull out your own bones from your body, interesting…

Trying to, unfortunately Republicans aren’t the only ones seeking to destroy everything - the Democrats doing a damn fine job as well:-(. This isn’t bOtH sIdEs BS, I’m saying that one side had a majority and did something with it, then the other side had that and… didn’t. Thus by the ratchet effect, they win by default. Biden’s Presidency has done so much, but the Democratic party as a whole not so much.

I mean, Trump is also defending genocide too though…