Socialism/communism will solve this issue. Like all current issues
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I’d be willing to bet it’s because they keep kissing the ring of the wealthy and helping corporations control money while writing laws to keep citizens under their thumb and decreasing means to redress any wrongs.
could have major repercussions for democracy
I dont know what "democracy" they are talking about. Maybe if politicians acted like they were in a democracy they wouldnt suffer "harassment".
“Democracy” in the same way the USSR was communist.
I suspect it's actually the progressive politicians (the ones we would consider the decent, or at least not completely corrupt and evil ones) who are overwhelmingly the targets of violence and abuse. For example, Ilhan Omar. The ones who are doing this are being called to action by the evil, they support the evil, and will replace them with more evil. This is part of the plan to replace our democracies with something more evil: fascism. While yes, some significant amount of blame can certainly be laid at the feet of all politicians for this situation, and even our best politicians leave a lot to be desired, I'm not sure we should throw the whole baby out with the bathwater just yet. That's committing to a pretty serious fight, and the fight we're facing is already plenty serious enough without trying to fix all the world's democracies problems at once. I think we need to focus on democracy surviving this at all, and I think there will be time and energy left to work on fixing its problems after that. But maybe I'm wrong.
Work. For. The People. Only the mentally ill think corporations are people.
It's telling that most replies are apologia for the assassination of right wing politicians but there has been much violence against left wing politicians in recent years, including the assassination of Jo Cox in the UK.
They don’t work for represent us, and we know it.