Are white people ready to bail on democracy? These researchers say the danger is real

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  1. Thought Criminal

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    What makes you think Trump is authortarian; or do I misunderstand?
     
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    Are you claiming the local elections died? Besides That is now the message in my video. It is how Democrats have tied this nation up in bundles of unneeded laws and regulations.
     
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    An Ironic question, given the state of the world at the moment. The identity politics elites are running scared from democracy. It doesn't matter how many referendums you have, they'll have more until they get the desired result, it doesnt matter what local populations think, they'll be overruled from above.
     
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    Which still has zero bearing on voting democratically in local elections.
     
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    Top U.S. security officials raise alarm about midterm election security: 'Democracy is in the crosshairs'
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    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-election-security-20180802-story.html

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-pennsylvania-rally/index.html
     
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    We won the 2016 election

    So obviously democracy is working ok for white conservatives
     
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    When liberals make accusations like this it means they will ditch democracy when they have power again
     
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    There are few conservatives in trump's party, only trumpies. That's why only 24% of Americans identify as Republicans.

    Enjoy your aberration and abomination while it lasts. It won't happen again. Democrats and liberal Independents won't be staying home on election day for a very very very long time.
     
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    Trump represents the heartland of America and millions of conservatives
     
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    Your problem is not that you stayed home, it is you ran terrible candidates. And sadly nobody you have today is a bit better. So prepare to be angry until 2025.
     
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    They may hold the title, professor, but they are rabid fascist progressive propagandists. The only frothing going on is going on is in fascist progressive circles. Trump supporters do not squash free speech, we don't have an ideology test on who we serve in public restaurants, we don't write bots to attack sponsers so alternative views will be muted. I do have some rational fears about government, even Trump's administration:

    I fear he will let assault weapons walk across our southern border in the hands of drug cartels and, liar that he is, I fear he will claim he found out about it on TV, and send his AG to tell a similar lie to Congress.

    I fear he will weaponize the IRS to attack his opponents and claim he found out about it on TV.

    I fear he will slow walk applications for raising funds to support free speech he doesn't agree with.

    I fear he will get sucked into a war in North Africa over oil, end up decapitating a country and destabilizing a continent ,,, and then send weapons to the ME to arm the creation and globalization of a terrorist group.

    I fear he will unleash the NSA to spy on American citizens, send his shill to Congress lie about his treachery, and exile a patriot whistleblower who spilled the beans.

    I fear he will spy on friends like Merkel.

    I fear he will sell 20% of our Uranium production to Russia.

    I fear he will drone American citizens who are suspected of crimes, creating a new form of due process.

    I fear he will look the other way when Putin invades a friendly nation he swore to defend.

    I fear he will spy on a candidate of the opposing party and unleash his shills in the intelligence agencies to punish people who assisted in running the opposing campaign.

    I fear he will do all of the above and more and claim that he found out about them on TV
     
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    A lot of that was concluded by Obama. Democrats don't mind a bit.
     
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    It was all 100% Obama fascist policy. He initiated it all. He concluded nothing. The Community Agitator-In-Chief shredded the Constitution and gave us the authoritarian rule that Democrats are whining about now. They only think it's authoritarian to unilaterally erase unconstitutional authoritarian dictates.

    Democrats are good at projection. If they admitted that the policies they blame Republicans for were their own, they wouldn't get 10% of the vote. They can't admit their policies. That's why Obama snubbed Ocasio-Cortez. She thinks authoritarian Socialism is what everyone wants. Being a Democrat, she's supposed to hide that and call Republicans authoritarians.
     
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    I believe it.

    We recently have had a couple threads where 4-5 well known conservative members here came out and admitted they support a fascist government and racist policies, and several others defending them without explicitly adopting the position.
     
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    Too sweeping?

    Coming from people who get their BS published in Salon and ThinkProgress, it's pretty easy to understand what should taken from these Progressive racists.

    Bottom line, just more total crap from alt-left educators.

    And people try to deny the decay of upper education and the indoctrination it subjects students to.
     
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    I think there is a portion of White People ready to bail, but the majority are not. We will survive. We just need to vote in the Midterms!
     
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    It's going to be more and more White People. Here is a great article:

    "Studies have shown how some whites, who are dying faster than they’re being born in 26 states, react when they become aware of a tectonic demographic shift that will, with little historic precedent, reconfigure the racial and ethnic geography of an entire country. They swing to the right, either becoming conservative for the first time, or increasingly conservative — “politically activated,” explained Ryan Enos, a political scientist at Harvard University, who among others found that white Democrats voted for Trump in higher numbers in places where the Latino population had recently grown the most."

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-fit-in/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e6b9f84c174d

    And who is the "We" that you think will survive.
     
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    Human beings bring strife and social dysfunction it is their nature.
     
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    Yes and the are almost all establishment Democrats.
     
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    We’ve seen “white nationalists” advocating for exactly that right here on PF.
     
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    Well, Obama often lamented about how much easier it would be as a dictator, and he used his pen and phone to give him dictatorial powers.

    That said, I read a lot of Trumpists who don't really like the separation of powers, and the checks and balances. We have one poster who has outright said that Trump should be our ruler, and not just our president (not in those exact words).
     
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    No one who is committed to democratic principles abandons democracy.
     
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