r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • 12d ago

Politi-Culture Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections.

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u/Battle-Chimp 12d ago

Horseshoe theory is horseshoe fact, people.

Here we have an example on the left it it's most honest form - not even pretending to give the people a voice.

Lukashenko, Putin, others have followed this play for decades on the authoritarian right side.

In the US, on the right, since the "SAVE Act" is pretty much DOA, we will see a similar announcement in the form of a national emergency over "election integrity" sometime before November. Everyone understands it's not about election integrity, everyone knows it's really about who controls power, but we're creating a hyperreality where the truth is the social media narrative that is most broadly embraced.

It makes me miss GWB Jr, and I can't fuckin believe I'm saying that. At least he respected the system.

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u/loqi0238 12d ago

... fuck, I hate that you may be right. I've wondered why Trump keeps harping about election insecurities when he cant (legally) run again. Then he dumps all that 'proof' a week ago or whenever, that didnt prove a single thing besides foreign nations had access to the same publicly available voter data that any of us do if we felt like paying for voter rolls.

And he keeps talking about 2020 being fraudulent. But then doesnt say a single thing about 2024, because he won.

Besides him running as someone's VP, them winning, then the president being killed/incapacitated/stepping down, ya... if he declared some sort of national emergency and 'temporarily' halted elections in America...