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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen other countries look at U.S., do they see a democracy or a dictatorship?
Many countries of the world have a lot of respect for the World Health Organization (WHO). They see them as promoting better health for people around the world. They are knowledgeable.
When Donald Trump says he is going to withdraw us from the World Health Organization, it is an affront to all the people of America. Is this what America really wants?
Yet, the Republican Party is silent...
Mitch McConnell and his Republican cohorts are waiting for the next election to be over. They hope to escape with the minimal of damage.
And people question whether America is still a democracy?
With no response from our Senators and Congressmen, many may conclude that we are now a dictatorship.
Which side are we on?
House of Roberts
(5,617 posts)Congress only passes laws that the oppressor class approves.
kentuck
(112,491 posts)People don't always vote in their own best interest.
Nay
(12,051 posts)in its compulsion to acquire more power and money.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,686 posts)Johnny2X2X
(21,357 posts)I have several Canadian friends, they're scared, they can't believe what the US is becoming and message often for reassurance, I give none. I tell them that the US is a threat to them and if Trump wins 4 more years that Canada is not safe from US aggression economically, he will try to punish them.
C_U_L8R
(45,521 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,993 posts)Exceptionally well functioning democracies are rare outside of Europe, North America and a few bright spots in Asia. The Philippines is "a democracy". Russia is "a democracy. Turkey is "a democracy" and so on. It's not so much that the U.S. is no longer viewed as "a democracy", it's that we done so much under Trump to cheapen the idea of being "a democracy". Being viewed as "a democracy" is less often equated with embracing "good government". It increasingly is seen as just another way of organizing the distribution of the spoils among those who have access to power.
kentuck
(112,491 posts)Good government cannot be taken for granted.
Igel
(35,973 posts)If you watched a lot of protests and quasi-revolutions, the signs and spokesfolk often seemed to point to the equivalence of democracy = (fast) prosperity.
In other words, dictatorship = poverty.
What happened is that in some cases "democracy" was put in place, whether formal and superficial or fairly thorough-going, and prosperity didn't immediately ensue.
Abductive logic got them to a false conclusion (as it often does, it's not real logic but puts on a good act). GIGO.
lark
(23,950 posts)Of course, it is being run by oligarchs, the continuing destructive force in this country and the world.
Hugin
(34,403 posts)But, mostly they see an ill managed fascism, stinking of organized crime with a broken down self-absorbed syphilitic cretin as a front man, a complicit and completely auto-neutered one party genuflecting government, and a few corporate interests really running things from the safety of their ensconced enclaves.
That about sums it up.
P.S. They're terrified.
kentuck
(112,491 posts)Somehow, the facts have to defeat the propaganda.
Facebook and technology is simple to use and simple people use it. Many times with no authoritative sources. Nothing more than a slogan on a colored background.
When there are no responses from the so-called 'Legislature' to the incredible comments and actions coming from this White House, we can only conclude that we are in a dictatorship.
tazkcmo
(7,419 posts)They see a once productive and desirable beacon of fairness and freedom reduced to a dysfunctional and impoverished rubble of trash.
MAGA!!!!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,686 posts)very much that the world has either.
tazkcmo
(7,419 posts)1975 to 1978, W. Germany
Ferrets are Cool
(21,686 posts)tazkcmo
(7,419 posts)But this was during the Carter administration and before Raygun
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,013 posts)Even before Trump, polling of people across the world showed that the plurality viewed the USA as the MOST DANGEROUS country in the world.