>>79749
You, the Americans; wanted the unqualified to run office and give people a pass to harm other people, while those who see the signs get silenced or forced into hiding.

The tree of liberality is THIRSTY.

>>79749
it been happening for a long time. its just so slow and insidious no one notices until one day everything is shit.

Maybe so, but its still infinitely better than whatever the fuck is going on in other countries.

>>79758
We're slowly inching up to those other countries anon.

democracy only works if we are aware and participate

>>79764
>democracy only works if we are aware and participate

If only democracy wasn't so fickle.

That and the US is a Constitutional Republic, not a pure democracy.

>>79765
And it is neither a pure Republic.

"Why not both"

>>79765
point taken

look at the stats for voter turn out in the last election, those who lose the most in society tend to not participate

>>79764
democracy works fine, the people chose to make the country worse

The truth is America was never perfect but much more prosperous decades ago with far less financial inequality. Over the years we outsourced our domestic industry, liberalized and consolidated our institutions such as our educational system (back 60 years ago only a small percentage went to college and it was far cheaper, most people joined the trade or got menial jobs right after high school). Federal-backed predatory student loans did not exist in those days... you could either afford the education or had to work like pretty much everyone else. However, there was plenty more opportunity and the US Dollar still had it's purchasing power backed by gold (aka shit was far cheaper). Government was limited and govt spending heavily regulated so there was actual democracy and freedom. Congress did not spend beyond the nation's means like they are doing today. Anti-trust laws were actually enforced to prevent monopolization unlike today. Fractional reserve banking was once considered fraud, not defended fiscal policy.

This all started to slowly change over the decades but after 9/11 the country suddenly drastically started getting far worse far faster since 2001. Think of it like a person walking in slow motion off a giant cliff and then suddenly time speeds up during the fall down. That's what we are living in today.

Also, there was more of a national consensus and agreement among the population as to what was right and what was wrong. What was ethical and moral and what was not. That consensus among most of America kept crime low, it kept communities safer and it kept bad inherently corrupt people behind bars or locked up in mental institutions, where those kind belong. Today? That consensus has been subverted and broken.

Immigration laws eventually laxed under Reagan. Feminism subverted young women's minds which eventually led to higher divorce rates and broken families. Drug and alcohol misuse became normalized and pop culture. Third world gangster violent slum culture replaced Jazz and the fine arts. Endless wars for profit became the default foreign policy. Endless government and corporate growth and centralization of power became the domestic policy. Bailout the greedy Epstein class criminals, let everyone else go bankrupt and die. After all, third world policy creates third world reality.

>>79766
No one said it was a pure republic either.
>what is reading comprehension

The movie Kill Them Softly，was about Americans were killed softly during Obama administration.