We are circling the fascist drain. A fascist take over could happen in the 2024 election cycle next year. It’s not really surprising how low confidence is in our intuitions when Republicans are actively dismantling them for power.

We can see how the electoral college votes, just as we can see that China’s elections are a sham. Loyalty to Xi is the only thing that matters in Chinese politics now.

The Supreme Court has numerous issues. For starters, they aren’t elected so they aren’t beholden to the people. They have minimal ethics guidelines so they can accept bribes from billionaires. They don’t have term limits, so they are effectively 9 kings and queens. The electoral college allowing two presidents to win their first term without the popular vote and the Senate giving conservative states over representation has allowed conservatives to capture the court. edit: typo

These compounding issues are destroying our democracy. If we don’t fix these issues we will not have democracy. The Supreme Court is already stripping rights from people, it’s only a matter of time before Republicans win back the Congress and the Presidency. If the Republicans are still controlled by fascists then and we haven’t fixed these problems we are going to be trouble.

ideally should is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence- They don’t. Local governments are often dominated by landlord interests, as well as homeowners- that’s often accomplished by systematically disenfranchising renters.

Yeah, rent is way too expensive. Another reason for socialism to the pile. edit: spacing

Defend what?

ourselves

they know jack shit about what those people actually think

I’m interested to learn more about what those people actually think.

Western communists are typically quite familiar with the ideology of liberals.

I’m not sure how they can be if they think everyone to the right of them is a liberal.

Not really, sorry. It’s legit going over my head. =(