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[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

The tendency to swing back and forth between ideologies was for a long time a superpower of democracies. No person was in power long enough to ruin it, that property was reserved for autocracies.

  • Now, at the end of American democracy, this once again proves to be the case.
  • or, alternatively, at this time in history, technological progress happens so quick that even a few years of democratic instability while an autocracy happens to be stable, are enough to change the power in the world anyway,