This week, an annual report on the global state of democracy, the Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), told reporters, "the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data." V-Dem’s principal investigator, Staffan Lindberg, added: "If it continues like this, democracy [in the US] will not last another six months." With an expected downgrade to the status of electoral autocracy, the US will share its label with Turkey, Hungary, Iraq, India, and Russia.
Oh big sigh! Although not an unexpected result. Democracy is Dead, long live 'The Cult of Trump'. Laughingly and sadly you can't even speak of Trump as a cult-like-figure. You might as well say, 'The Cult of Jim Jones, as the two seem the same. At least in the latter scenario we would have had the hope that whole current administration including Trump. would drink the Kool-Aid and leave us alone. Then we could wake up the next day to a better world.
As it is because of Biden's lack of Presidential leadership and gumption, to undo past Trump policies, mostly because of the natural decline caused by old age. It is going to take a decade or more polish the tarnished reputation of America in the future. So we may take a decade or longer, to regain the luster we once held on the world stage. Although with a good person leading us, with the Constitution as their guide, I believe we will reach that point.
Sadly it is now going to be twice as hard to regain our shine. As the old ways of doing business, will no longer be seen as the right ways to be repentant. Trust once lost is hard to regain, especially the undoing of the current foreign policies set in place by the idiots within our State Department; no 'idiots' isn't the right word. I should have used the word 'dumbbells', as that is how our current administration behaves. We are being led by 'The Dumbbells of Democracy', who are intently killing America.
The article above is correct, Privacy in America is Dead, and the melancholy true is no one seems to care. This lack of caring is the scariest thing of all. This is first and foremost what the Trump Presidency has done. Killed Empathy in America for everyone as they invade our personal lives digitally in delicate, offensive, and private ways that wound all of us. The current administration's greatest strength is degrading all of us, both financially and spiritually. By trying to convince us individuality that we are lacking the strength to guide ourselves intellectually and morally by trying to shove AI leadership down our throats, as a new means of addicting and enslaving us to corporate leadership. Personally I have had enough, and will do all that I can, to digitally keep my soul clean of corporate plunder and the dirt of government advertisement, meant to rule the way I think.
[OP] D-R-AZ | 17 hours ago
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/
Excerpt:
This week, an annual report on the global state of democracy, the Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), told reporters, "the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data." V-Dem’s principal investigator, Staffan Lindberg, added: "If it continues like this, democracy [in the US] will not last another six months." With an expected downgrade to the status of electoral autocracy, the US will share its label with Turkey, Hungary, Iraq, India, and Russia.
billdietrich1 | 10 hours ago
Some services you use already may have non-USA locations you can move to. This doesn't fix all concerns, but it might be an easy change to do.
americanspirit64 | 9 hours ago
Oh big sigh! Although not an unexpected result. Democracy is Dead, long live 'The Cult of Trump'. Laughingly and sadly you can't even speak of Trump as a cult-like-figure. You might as well say, 'The Cult of Jim Jones, as the two seem the same. At least in the latter scenario we would have had the hope that whole current administration including Trump. would drink the Kool-Aid and leave us alone. Then we could wake up the next day to a better world.
As it is because of Biden's lack of Presidential leadership and gumption, to undo past Trump policies, mostly because of the natural decline caused by old age. It is going to take a decade or more polish the tarnished reputation of America in the future. So we may take a decade or longer, to regain the luster we once held on the world stage. Although with a good person leading us, with the Constitution as their guide, I believe we will reach that point.
Sadly it is now going to be twice as hard to regain our shine. As the old ways of doing business, will no longer be seen as the right ways to be repentant. Trust once lost is hard to regain, especially the undoing of the current foreign policies set in place by the idiots within our State Department; no 'idiots' isn't the right word. I should have used the word 'dumbbells', as that is how our current administration behaves. We are being led by 'The Dumbbells of Democracy', who are intently killing America.
The article above is correct, Privacy in America is Dead, and the melancholy true is no one seems to care. This lack of caring is the scariest thing of all. This is first and foremost what the Trump Presidency has done. Killed Empathy in America for everyone as they invade our personal lives digitally in delicate, offensive, and private ways that wound all of us. The current administration's greatest strength is degrading all of us, both financially and spiritually. By trying to convince us individuality that we are lacking the strength to guide ourselves intellectually and morally by trying to shove AI leadership down our throats, as a new means of addicting and enslaving us to corporate leadership. Personally I have had enough, and will do all that I can, to digitally keep my soul clean of corporate plunder and the dirt of government advertisement, meant to rule the way I think.