To think that the USA is a dictatorship now?

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Calling the US a dictatorship because you don't like their policies is massively silly.

There have been some interesting moves going on in Trump's second presidency around the US balance of powers. These haven't finished playing out yet. I suspect he'll win some, and lose others, but that's how political problems get solved. And deadlocks and inability to act has been a real problem in the US government to some extent and has become a contributor to political cynicism in the population and also polarisation.

For example, any backwater low level court judge being able to stop presidential orders etc for the whole country - lobbyists and political types have been using that to hamstring their opponents on both sides of the political divide, and it's a problem.

I think the US is in a period of its institutions being tested, which happens in governments, it's how they evolve.

Yeah the judge sealed it to protect Trump 😂

I think we should care about American politics despite not being British though, America is a huge influence and we have a close relationship.

But then we should also care about the politics of a lot of countries, just because we aren’t a national doesn’t mean we should t care. I care a lot about oppressed women in certain countries. I don’t come from there but I really fucking care about what’s happening to their citizens.

Anyone claiming they are scared are either illegal immigrants or idiotic scaremongers.

Democrats have done a good job pretending there is no difference between legal and illegal immigration so they can scare people. If you’re illegal you don’t have any right to work and live in the US, but somehow enforcing immigration laws is now racist yet Obama deported way more people than Trump.

The difference is Trump is putting up detrences to stop the bullshit at the borders where people fleeing for economic reasons falsely claim asylum and hand the system. But according to the guardian immigrants are SCARED to go out, what bullshit.

Do you notice her the article never mentions or clarifies if they ds legal or not, pretend there is no difference and use a catch all “immigrants”

They declare themselves sanctuary cities to attract illegal immigrants then pass laws to prohibit requiring IDs to vote, connect the dots on what they are doing but I guess you’re so woke they you can’t see it 😅

I have read extensively about history and social psychology and political history. And I come from a country that experienced dictatorship.
I can guarantee you that that’s exactly how it starts. The rhetoric, the masses and the isolation and blame to specific groups. The power behind media and the propaganda about a return to a better time.
The final element? People that don’t see it and think it’s always about someone else’s country

You’re talking about the riots, I presume. I wasn’t. People have been prosecuted in the UK for tweeting lyrics to rap songs that they themselves didn’t write. More people have been imprisoned here for what they’ve posted on Twitter than in Russia.

And again, I don’t have a dog in this fight. I’m not American. I find your obsession with bad orange man amusing considering you aren’t, either.

My fear is that there is a growing confidence under Trump. The KKK haven’t been this confident in decades. So who will come after him? And how many people will now feel okay to vote for the next, potentially worse person? If someone like Trump can get in and someone like Vance can be his second, who knows who is next. Thee people are so dangerous. Like here, I don’t think Farage is as dangerous as other members of Reform are. But Trump and Farahe allow these people in and give them opportunities and platforms and it only gets worse. When we vote for men such as these, we allow a lot worse in through the back door.

Because it was sealed by a judge until January 25.

I don’t give a shit about CNN or fox, both crap and biased same with BBC.

the bullshit you’re typing sounds like the rubbish I see on Reddit where they act like everyone is being arrested and kidnapped docs I’m black and have no issues so cut the crack about people of colour, nonsense virtue signaling.

There was an attempted insurrection though...

I don't think Vance has the adoring followers that Trump has. I do agree he is also dangerous though.

There is literally no evidence that Trump engaged in anything like that, he’s he was friends with Epstein same as many other people and it’s documented that he cut ties with Epstein ages ago when rumors of the crap started but your man Andrew continued and was protected by her majesty his mummy.

if there was proof against Trump don’t you think Biden would have released it? They did everything to try to prevent him from running yet you think there’s proof against Trump and they didn’t use it?

Yeah and both of those people behaved despicably.

Someone commenting about the US doesn’t have to turn into a U.K. vs US situation. We have problems, we’ve had bad management for some time now. But so has the US. Paedophilia and rape and control of women has been rife across the world and it’s getting worse. Making out that the U.K. also has issues - yes we know - doesn’t negate the problems under Trump’s America.

Fortunately illegal immigration in the UK is far lower than in the US, as is crime, We live our life free from religious bigotry and are able to speak and act freely without fear of an over zealous police or immigration service hauling us off the streets. Not only that, we don’t have the level of inequality or racism that pervades the US and manage to provide universal health care. The US is, in the rest of the world, seen as one of the nicest developing world countries however, so you’re doing okay ;)

Trump is by far the worst president of the modern era. He is more malicious, more petty and more cruel than you might believe. It's shocking and horrifying. Most of the people who defend him on this site are not actually Americans. And, remember less than 30% of the voting population voted for him.

And yet your precious Queen protected her pedophile son after he raped an underaged girl on Epstein’s island.

Bloody hypocrite.

That’s true. But he relinquished it before despite threatening that he wouldn’t, I’m not sure he will be able to not. I think what comes af the r him could be more frightening. Vance frightens me more than Trump in many ways.

It's generally accepted that Brits tend to stereotypically see the USA as, whatever you want to call it, thick headed. We just don't normally spout off about it, because we're British.

Anyhoo - now more than ever the battle of good over evil is won not by being divisive but looking at what we have in common. We all want a better future for the children of today. We might disagree on how to get there, who is to blame, and have deep valid concerns about whether people from different countries are going to share the same values - so the next 10-15 years are not going to be easy.

I wish I had your confidence. I don't think we'll know until we see if he will relinquish power at the end of this term.

This is such a terrible argument I don’t know why I’m responding to it, and yet…

No, none of us have ever read books, fiction or non-fiction, or studied history. You’re right.

you have to read what you are posting and your wording....one can sense it ....all the words one uses usually refer to ....