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Rhiannon12866

(206,072 posts)
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 11:21 PM Jan 2022

Autocracy is SO much more efficient - Mark Fiore



Pundits are talking about what screw-ups the Democrats are after their inability to pass voting rights legislation and their signature social spending bill. I still say a political party with two wrong-headed idiot senators is waaaay better than a party with fifty of them.

It’s amazing how much people are focusing on fights and negotiations within the Democratic caucus and President Biden’s poll numbers. Never mind that there is an entire political party firmly entrenched in Congress that supports a violent insurrection and election subversion.

Of course Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are crucial to getting anything done . . . mainly because attempting to reason with Republicans is currently hopeless. Unfortunately, it looks like reasoning with Manchin and Sinema is also hopeless.

The biggest problem isn’t Democratic infighting, the biggest problem is how to deal with a political party that has become an autocratic cult of personality.



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Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
1. Fairly obvious by now. The Major Networks refuse to tell the truth and it's getting scary
Sat Jan 22, 2022, 12:23 AM
Jan 2022

how much they don’t care, high in their ivory towers, overlooking control of American thought…conning all America into the Iraq War was their greatest success to date, now they want a greater one, here.

Rhiannon12866

(206,072 posts)
2. I think the point of the video is that while there are those complaining democracy is messy
Sat Jan 22, 2022, 12:26 AM
Jan 2022

The alternative is a whole lot worse - autocracy, which is what TFG was attempting to install.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
7. Thanks. So I misunderstood...tbh that seems to b the currency of social media. Lol
Sat Jan 22, 2022, 09:48 AM
Jan 2022

👍🍁🍺

Those complaining about democracy need to duck off or help fix it.

Rhiannon12866

(206,072 posts)
8. I did worry a little that those who weren't familiar with Mark Fiore from the Bush* years might
Sat Jan 22, 2022, 09:52 AM
Jan 2022

Misunderstand - but if they watch to the end, he makes it abundantly clear. It's good to see him back, he was always a favorite.

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