The 2024 election is not just Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump. It's democracy vs autocracy.
1932 marked the last democratically held election in Germany until after World War II. Let's not make the same mistake.
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1932 marked the last democratically held election in Germany until after World War II. Let's not make the same mistake.
Things deteriorated so dramatically under Trump that the United States may technically no longer even qualify as a democracy.
Indeed, inequality—of resource use, but also of income and wealth—is extremely high today and is actually worsened by economic growth.
Over the last 10 years, we’ve moved ominously from the democracy toward which we have been evolving since 1776, and instead have increasingly become an oligarchy where power has been concentrated in the hands of fewer unfathomably wealthy people....
Over the last 10 years we’ve moved ominously from the democracy toward which we have been evolving since 1776 and instead are increasingly becoming an oligarchy where power has been concentrated in the hands of fewer unfathomably wealthy people....