As a former PRC Citizen, this fucking hurts.
Why is every country I step foot in, either a dictatorship, or is becoming, a dictatorship?
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Because we're living in an age that, I feel anyways, have forgotten why it was that things became to be after World War II.
And since the memory of World War II has faded every decade since, it has allowed dictatorship to take new forms in the modern age and was allowed to rapidly grow. We're now facing a modern day form of dictatorship and it's not great for anyone. America has long held the reputation that it wouldn't ever lower itself to such standards. But, a lot of deliberately misinformed and careless Americans have allowed psychos to bring down that reputation to such standards.
This is what happens when you allow a voice to everyone. Stupid people shouldn't have such a reach.
Hmm, I’d say it is about smart people reaching stupid (I prefer the term uneducated) people with content that corrupts them.
US neglected the fact that a proper democracy needs well educated people with own opinions to not collapse. Own opinions, like being able to say way that is the own opinion and upon what facts it is built upon.
Additionally learning to have/feel empathy is just as important.
I feel the reputation of the US was more that they can't imagine themselves being lowered to this, rather than that they wouldn't do it.