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That helped the issue click into place - NONE of the past 15 days are unremarkable. And again, ITS BEEN 15 Days! If you stop your thought at just “people are losing their shit”, thats seeing half the world. I’d say thats disingenuous, because it misses or dismisses the incredibly alarming actions that have precipitated them. If you genuinely care about it, then you might be interested in knowing why people are respon…
Let me put it another way. Trump is likely to try many outrageous and unexpected things. As someone who tries to be non partisan, and isn't even american, I am fatigued by all of the claims that the world within the USA is ending. Whenever I take the time to examine any of the claims they tend to be fairly hollow or making slippery slope arguments. As an international user of reddit, there are many of us I presume, I…
If we review democracies through history that have at some point become less democratic, I think describing the process of how that actually happens as being a slippery slope is quite apt. I’d say it’s more of a fallacy to assume that democracy is a secure default state of being rather than an ideal that we must collectively support or lose entirely—that we can safely “slip” a little without risking a slide further down the slope.