Can you give examples of democrats trying to accumulate power?
They seem to be missing the irony in their complaints; the constraint is intended upon those doing the governing.
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John Kerry: And I think the the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing. And it's part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't, you know, there's no, the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact, the kind of, you know, been eviscerated to a certain degree. And, people go, people self-select where they go for their news or for their information, and then you just get into a vicious cycle. So it's really, really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I've been involved in this.
And, and, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities, in order to guarantee that you're going to have, you know, some accountability on facts, etc..
But look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
So what you need, what we need is to, is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully having, you know, winning enough votes that you're free to be able to, to, implement change.
Now, obviously, there are some people in our country who are prepared to implement change in other ways. And . . .
Børge Brende: So you're questioning, really, for [if] democracy can survive unregulated social media?
John Kerry: I think democracies are, are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges that we are facing. And to me, that is part of what this race, this, this election is all about. Will we break the fever in the United States?
As a Hungarian I see my own country going down economically because Hungarians outside my country got voting rights and benefits because of Orban without reqirements for taxation, and now we are stuck with a dictator.
Of course US has a much more stable system, but the leftist strategy there seems to me like a parallel to what Orban was doing on the right.
First of all, new migrants can't vote without becoming citizens. So even if it did increase Democratic votes, it would be on a much longer timeline.
Second of all, the last democratic presidents actually did a better job of returning migrants, just without all of the drama and commotion: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-re...
The reality is both parties are currently tough on illegal immigration. But one party is overtly nationalist about it.
If they vote with a provisional ballot, then once again their registration will be checked before their ballot is counted.
> As a Hungarian…
Where are you getting your news from in Hungary that is both reporting on US politics but also is so confused about the basics of how voting in the US works?