[ActorNightly]

>If we don’t do something about it we could lose democracy.

I love how people are still pretending like this didn't happen already. If you think there are going to be elections in 2028, you are gravely mistaken.

But as an aside, the issue isn't necessarily the wealth inequality, its the fact that the average person in US enjoys a relatively good life. This is why most of US didn't show up to vote in 2024. This creates a catch 22 situation, because people enjoy this level of life, and are going to elect leaders that will let them continue to live this way, not realizing that this is not sustainable. Which automatically makes them reject any leaders that are attempting to fix the problems that are slowly created, because those solutions means either less freedoms or less money in the short term (even if it means more money or more freedoms in the long term).

I dunno what the solution to this is really, and nobody does. You can argue that strong authoritarian control by the right coalition could fix this, but then the question becomes "how do make enough people believe that they don't deserve the freedoms that they had in order to put trust in that coalition"

[Muromec]

Oh, you will have election a-okay, it's not that modern dictatorships don't care to do the dance. The problem is the deep suspicion of who will win them forming 4 years in advance.

[Gryffex]

Fuck no. The amount of hardness is owning the economy is too much.

[pupppet]

>I love how people are still pretending like this didn't happen already. If you think there are going to be elections in 2028, you are gravely mistaken.

My guess- US coordinates with China on the timing of Taiwan's takeover. Trump then argues he can't very well step down in the middle of a war.

[xnx]

> If you think there are going to be elections in 2028, you are gravely mistaken

Dictatorships can still have elections. Putin won his last election with 88% of the vote

[slibhb]

> If you think there are going to be elections in 2028, you are gravely mistaken.

Care to make it interesting?

[bryanlarsen]

Of course there's going to be an election in 2028. They have elections in Russia. That doesn't make Russia a democracy, though.

[ActorNightly]

I mean, if I knew you in person, Id probably take 70:30 odds on a bet that there wouldn't be a fair election in 2028. Online its pretty pointless, as I can fake any evidence of me betting one way or another, and so can you.

Even then, if I win, the money is going to be pointless as US dollar will tank hard.

[nh23423fefe]

This is what conviction in your beliefs looks like.

[ben_w]

> Even then, if I win, the money is going to be pointless as US dollar will tank hard.

You could always short the dollar, I guess?

I suspect Trump's policies will tank the dollar and thereby cause a swing against the Republicans larger than the most likely novice attempts by anyone in the US attempting to interfere with the election.

I don't think "being a dictatorship" will, by itself, put off investors. Only actual economic harm will do that.