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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Sep-2025 09:06:55 JST Rich Felker

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   • Erik Moeller

   @eloquence I think this is a really good framing. Any path forward needs to acknowledge that the systems we had, which have been or are being dismantled, were not producing democracy. We need to be asking and envisioning what actually will.

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Sep-2025 09:06:57 JST Erik Moeller

     I don't really think it makes sense to talk about "protecting democracy" in a two-party system where one party has fully given up on the idea of democracy and is steadily building out authoritarian rule.

     Nor does success at pushing that party out of power while it remains fundamentally anti-democratic magically "restore democracy".

     At this point, the goal must be to _create_ democracy in the United States.