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BloodyMess on November 23rd, 2021 at 19:20 UTC »
This is as good a time as any to post this again:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21449634/republicans-supreme-court-gop-trump-authoritarian
Look at the chart in this article. The GOP is one of the most right-wing, authoritarian political parties in the world. There is no "both sides" to this, the GOP has just jumped off the democracy train.
The reason why it's so important to talk about this is so many Americans just by default think the "right" and "left" are equal entities, so the truth is somewhere "in the middle." The "middle" is now far right based on how reactionarily right-wing the GOP is.
Voting reform, abolishing the electoral college, and implementing ranked-choice voting everywhere is probably all that can save us from a full descent into authoritarianism.
Edit: For anyone that likes to see the raw data, it's free to access. Here is a link to the Harvard repository for the data, which includes other comparators and other countries not on the chart.
I'd recommend to click Access Database at the top, download "Original Format ZIP," and then open in a spreadsheet alongside the Note and Codebook PDF to understand the scores.
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WMGTNS
zaparthes on November 23rd, 2021 at 18:05 UTC »
Was the problem with Germany in 1933 political polarization? Or something else?
Scubalefty on November 23rd, 2021 at 18:01 UTC »
Radicalization? They stormed the Capitol, trying to overturn the election, wearing sweatshirts proclaiming they were starting a civil war.
That beyond radicalization. That's outright treason.