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US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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You know it's democracy when the policies of 340 million people can flip-flop based on the whims of a handful of moronic hateful shitbirds.
It's not the handful, unfortunately.
The handful has no real power.
The problem is that 49% on each side flip-flop based on whoever's in power, because their values and opinions are a matter of convenience, and perfectly easy to change with their preferred nightly news broadcast.
It's not 49%. The split in 2024 was 1/3 R, 1/3 D, 1/3 didn't vote, and ~1% 3rd party.
As the other commenter said, it's a much fewer percentage of the population that sways those 1/3s either in the favor of R or D.
And you'd think Democrats would have chased after the 1/3 that sat at home instead of Rs, but we all know what actually happened
You're correct in the general sense. But it's not even 49%. It's basically 2-10% of the American electorate. They flip-flop based on their own myopic, selfish impulses, and whatever bullshit they've been fed by the media.
In 2016 they swung it for Trump because unlike his opponent he's a white guy, they didn't like Clinton, and because Trump's promises of cheaper gas for their big trucks would save them a bit of money each month.
In 2020 they swung for Biden because he's also a white guy, they had discovered Trump just caused chaos without really delivering any personal benefits to them, and Biden looked like the more stable option for their pocket book.
In 2024 they swung for Trump again because unlike his opponent he's a white guy, and they apparently have fucking goldfish memories.
Meanwhile, millions of other people in America and elsewhere in the world are being put through hell to a lesser or greater degree because of these people.
You know, I've definitely considered this criticism of most democracies for why dictatorship is such a dirty concept.
In a world where people can be herded like sheep and votes bought, dictators at least have the potential to go against the status quo.
The flaw of democracy is it requires an educated population to make correct decisions.
Believe it or not, authoritarian regimes are less stable than democracies.
This is seems like a false statement. What you mean by stable exactly ?
Able to hand power over without bloody civil wars.
USA 2020 enters the chat /s
This is a very narrow view of stability.
Yes it is and dictatorships can't even jump that.