• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is sadly so obvious to see, that you don’t need a report to know that.

    Romania and Slovakia — are becoming the center of democratic growth in Europe

    The report is even already way off regarding Slovakia, who just elected an authoritarian with sympathies towards Russia.
    Romania is a bit shaky too, they have very little trust in the democratic government, and could probably easily be swayed by a populist who says what they want to hear.

    It doesn’t mention USA, Brazil, Argentina that are all becoming more shaky too, instead of stabilizing.
    It also doesn’t mention China, that also became more authoritarian, with Xi grabbing even more power much like Putin.

    Being young in the 70’s, I never in my worst nightmares imagined things would ever become this bad.
    When the Berlin Wall was broken, I never imagined it could become this bad. It’s kind of worse than before the wall was broken, because USA alone is such a huge influence, and Republican have gone completely nuts for Authoritarianism for some reason???

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      8 months ago

      Republican have gone completely nuts for Authoritarianism for some reason???

      two reasons:

      1. in 2010 they got to gerrymander the fuck out of districts and thus got a whole bunch of safe seats where even total wackos can win primaries and then go on to safely win the general

      2. the republican’s whole ideology and support base is crumbling away and it’s basically unstoppable at this point. old racists who fondly remember jim crow are all retired and young people are leaving christianaity at a consistent rate of around 1%/year. their economic policies are totally out of whack with what the bottom 90% need or want and no one believes tax cuts on the rich will benefit anyone but the rich. their only hope is overthrowing the government and installing a dictator and everyone knows it