American Democracy Is Dying

If you think American democracy is dying, have a look at my country - under the present fascist regime, India has slowly transformed into a mobocracy that will ultimately further evolve into one party theocratic dictatorship (if not checked).

Oh god, another person casting their political axe as some grand systemic critique.

We just had a speak of the house literally rip up the President's State of the Union, not the kind of thing that would happen in Italy in 1935.

If Bloomberg beats Trump in the general, and uses his money to advance good progressive causes, is this still evidence of the death of American democracy?

Loud disagreement, complex political theatrics playing themselves out in the legal system, and beneath it all, people speaking and voting with freedom.

Compare that to what's going on in Wuhan, and tell me American Democracy is dying.

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The Democrats aren't going to do well until they put Kool-Aid like this down and start concentrating on winning elections. Most of the current field are non-starters at the national level. Mike Bloomberg isn't some villain--he's a decent, sober, and plausible opponent to Trump. Not sexy, but he could actually win, and would generally push the ball in the direction that most Democrats want.