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what I don't understand is why don't they just come out and say "ok, no more elections. this is a dictatorship now" like they keep tip toeing around it, they keep breaking the law, insider trading, illegal operations, all of it and they've gotten away with it every time. So why do they keep teasing something they know they have a strong possibility of getting away with? who are they afraid of?
They're boiling the frog, still. Each little step they flood the airwaves with justifications and distractions to trick their idiot followers into supporting. Too big a step and they lose too many at once.
Doesn’t Russia still hold elections where Putin always wins? Or North Korea?
I think the idea is you keep having elections so you can say you won.
As opposed to the wonderful and free America, which holds elections where we get a choice between one of two candidates favored by corporate oligarchs. Candidates who are appointed to the candidacy, if the parties so wish, by "[going] into back rooms like they used to and [smoking] cigars and [picking] the candidate that way", as acknowledged by our own courts.
Sure, a third party candidate can run, but without funding they have no actual chance of winning even if their message would otherwise resonate with the public. That's not a functional republic or a functional democracy, it's democracy theater put on by our ruling class to appease the working masses.
Whataboutism.
A. We weren’t talking about that.
B. Yes it sucks too, but the alternative, which we were actually talking about, is objectively worse.
I know, you were spreading western exceptionalism talking points, which is what I wanted to dispel.
North Korea has killed fewer people than America. I'm obviously not pro-Russia but just quantifiably, they have also killed fewer people than America (especially if we're talking Russia as a current political entity and not USSR). Both also contribute less per-capita to the climate change destroying our planet. So "worse" by what metric exactly?
EDIT: Whole lotta downvotes, notable absence of actual responses. Liberal moment. "Worse" by what metric?
Now they are talking about killing people and the climate. How far we stray, to be edgy.
What are you yapping about?
They're following the Hungary model, which in turn was a variation on the Russian model.
What they're attempting is a "legal coup," which is the typical modern democracy-to-authoritarianism transition. They want to retain the facade of constitutionality and lawfulness, to avoid creating an armed insurgency situation, and to avoid burning the value of the current economic system by crashing the stock market or causing investment to flee.
It's to pacify the enlightened centrists who will go along with it as long as it's supposedly 'what the people want'.