Not an American here, nor a defender of what people did or didn’t vote for.
What I was getting at was the massive media manipulation from outside and inside and the obvious foreign control the Dear Leader is under. With the deadly combination of of poor education, widespread media illiteracy and pervasive social media, our democracies have become even more remotely-controllable for whoever is willing to put the money in.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The US is not a democracy. Just like in Russia, the votes are for show.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Sorry but no. As profoundly unfair and undemocratic the US system is, it’s still more democratic than Russia where any serious opposition is literally murdered in broad daylight.
“The votes are for show” – do you mean to say that Trump’s victory in 2016, Biden’s in 2020 and Trump’s again in 2024 were prearranged by the central “powers that be”?