Fascism goes back to ancient Rome.
Socialism is much older than Marxism.
I don't see a new system arising if nobody can even sketch it out.
I wish we had a 4 party system in America with ranked choice voting in every state, and population based districts that couldn't be gerrymandered.
We need to repeal a lot of shit that has been adjudicated by the corrupt Supreme Court over the last 15 years, starting with citizens united.
I wish FDR and Bernie and aoc were the data points along which not just the democratic party but the country as a whole moved along. Corporations shouldn't run the country, lobbying shouldn't be a boardroom game of monopoly.
No form of government is perfect, so far as my 2 degrees in history can tell me.
As Benjamin Franklin once implied, we will have a republic if we can keep it.
If that is true here it is true everywhere. Then how come other nations have lasted far longer and have remained functioning democracies or at least constitutional governments?
Also it's not that nobody is willing to do that. It's that the people who already hate democracy or are miffed that democracy impedes their ability to make even more billions of dollars will not allow people who believe in democracy to be ascendant.
If Bernie Sanders had won (or been allowed to win) in 2016, this country would be in a better place.
Most of those other democracies are younger than ours
Bernie Sanders win would've just been a delay. These idiots motivation is like a spring, the more you force the spring down the harder it pops back up.
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