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Some Americans are already living in a world of Republican "democracy" in their red state - Republicans are taking women's rights-away of her own body away!

Viktor Orban coined the term "ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY".
The sound of that makes my skin crawl.
Reading it in print makes my hands twitch.

In the past others have labeled it "managed democracy" .
A managed democracy is technically a democratic government that functions in reality as a de facto authoritarian government or in some cases, as an autocratic government.

Such governments attempt to put on an air of legitimacy by holding elections that they pretend are free and fair, but which do not and cannot change the state's policies, motives, and goals because opposition candidates are prohibited from running unless they are granted license to by the autocracy. The managed legislature acts basically as a rubber stamp to grant continuing authority to whatever the autocracy demands irregardless of the will of the people.

Learn to love that yoke, Greger.

Let us not forget that currently in some red states, Republicans are not only willing to take rights-away, they’re instituting incarceration as well. Doing so is reminiscent of 1930s Germany.

To say it’s “politics as usual” is like saying Anne Heche suffered a minor car accident - it was more than that.

They need to be locked up!

I never said politics as usual was a minor affair, it often leads to world wars and such.

My head didn't explode when some lady out west crashed her car and died...traffic deaths are as common as crooked politicians.

Did her death spell the end of traffic as we know it...? Or was it just another traffic death...?

Traffic deaths as usual from my viewpoint.

Anne Heche wasn’t a “traffic death,” it was a self-inflected, horrific grotesque disfiguring event - not unlike how some are knowingly and willingly self-inflecting their own horrific grotesque disfigurement event by discounting the Republican’s march to Fascism.

Typing in all caps makes my skin crawl.

Viktor Orban has a shelf life too and will be gone in a decade or less. Chances are good that the "lliberal democracy" he embraced will be replaced with a more liberal one.

So you think I should shake off the yoke of this illiberal democracy Republicans have turned America into...?

Maybe I should join a militia and become a sovereign citizen. Buy some guns to protect myself. Refuse my government check and government sponsored healthcare.

No thanks. I will voice my opinion at the ballot box and accept the results with grace if I am outvoted.

Because the election isn't rigged. And I don't think Americans will ever allow them to be rigged. Even though a corrupt politician occasionally comes along and tries to rig them.

If Americans were the weaklings you imagine them to be then they would deserve to go down that path. Because every time a society does it the results are the same. (see history)

But I don't think they are. No matter which party they vote for.

I'm not saying it can't happen here. I'm saying it most likely won't. And even if it did we would overcome it. Because we are f*cking Americans and it's what we do.

Politics as usual from my viewpoint.

Call it what you want, Rick, it was just another drunk driving incident to me.

Imagine the joy and satisfaction you would have felt if it was Donald Trump in that car...

It happened on a residential street - not a thoroughfare.

You make it seem as if I'm like Mitch McConnell, seen here watching someone get injured at the Special Olympics:



...or seen here when a bus-load of school kids got stuck at a railroad crossing with a fast-approaching train:



No Greger, I'm not like Mitch McConnell.