Well, Democracy not doing so hot these days. Elections around the world thread might not get as much use as it once did. Time for coups around the world!
Oversimplified summary. South Korea elected this shitty right wing misogynist piece of shit guy. He did win the election legitimately. Unsurprisingly he has done a bad job and the government is falling apart. He can’t get a budget passed. He has all sorts of scandals going on, which he is preventing from being investigated. He was going down.
Rather than go down, he is doing a classic coup. I’m quite certain that all the talk about the opposition party being North Korean sympathizers is a lie.
South Korea is a country which overthrew a dictator and achieved democracy largely via student protests as recently as 1987. They were eventually able to force a military dictator—Chun Doo-hwan—to hold democratic elections establishing the government they have today, or perhaps until today?
A lot of those people are still alive. They are the boomers and GenX Koreans. In 2016-2017 they demonstrated they have not forgotten their roots, and have passed down their methods and culture of effective protest to the younger generations. They successfully impeached the corrupt president Park Geun-hye.
If there is are any people on earth that can protect democracy against a coup of this nature, it is the Korean people. If they can’t do it now after having already succeeded twice in my lifetime, then can anyone? If they do protect democracy again, as I hope and believe they will, the rest of the world should look to them as an example and follow in their footsteps.
France’s anti-fascist coalition government fell. The nazis partnered with the dirtbag left to succeed in the first no-confidence vote France has seen since 1962.
Now a new coalition government has to form. Every non-fascist and non-dipshit in the government is going to have to hold the line and compromise with eachother through what will likely be an unending serious of such no-confidence votes until they wait the nazis out.
But the lede here is that these dirtbag “leftists” are just as much of a threat to democracy as the nazis. The red-brown alliance is part of how Clinton lost in 2016.
Indeed. We are the kind of people who look at things in terms of left and right. The thing we want most is the policies of the left. Free health care, human rights, etc.
When you look out you see a lot of examples like people who voted for AOC and also voted Trump. Bernie Bros. that became Trumpies. Dirtbag left allying with the far right in France.
The narrative for those people is that policy is not their priority. They are authoritarian and anti-establishment before they are left or right. They hate pre-Trump Republicans and establishment Democrats equally. These people want something radical regardless of what that radical thing is. They want a big shake with no care for the results as long as the chips don’t fall where they presently lie.
Constructing a radical leftist movement may be the key to victory. It needs to be able to get the votes of the non-radical left with its policy, while being extreme enough to get support from people who are primarily anti-establishment.
