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BerlinFokus"In places where <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/VoteBuying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteBuying</a> exist, it undermines the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/legitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legitimacy</a> of the people who may be elected into <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/PoliticalOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalOffice</a> (..) since <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elections</a> are tools for <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accountability</a> and <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/GoodGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoodGovernance</a>."<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ote-buying-in-Africa_fig1_259992513" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ote-buying-in-Africa_fig1_259992513</a>Elon <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> brought sooo much innovation from <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> to the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Democray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democray</a> of the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> of <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a>.

BerlinFokusThe next step in the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> will of course be open <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oppression</a> because the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Power</a> of the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> - <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Junta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Junta</a> isn't enough to uphold <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Legitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Legitimacy</a> even in the medium term.And all out oppression too won't save that <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Regime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Regime</a> forever, as <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> is pretty clear about that.🇺🇲

BerlinFokusI have shared this text about <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/PowerAsASourceOfLegitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerAsASourceOfLegitimacy</a> before, but it went unnoticed back then, so I just do it again.It is pretty much what is happening in the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>. The <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> - Junta is skipping all traditional forms of achieving <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Legitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Legitimacy</a> (because they suck at it) in favor of <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Power</a>.Their Legitimacy is "because I say so" & people accept that because "it gets the job done". They think. But it totally doesn't.If that power falters, so does all Legitimacy.<a href="https://www.e-ir.info/2008/11/24/the-fourth-pillar-power-as-a-source-of-legitimacy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.e-ir.info/2008/11/24/the-fourth-pillar-power-as-a-source-of-legitimacy/</a>.

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is assaulting his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/own" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#own</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/legitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legitimacy</a><a href="https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-defying-court-rulings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-defying-court-rulings</a>

Hopeful Humanizer<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Freedom</a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#justice</a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#equality</a>, and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/opportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#opportunity</a> are <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/values" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#values</a> the majority of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Americans</a> can agree on. The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GOP</a> as it is incarnated now so narrows the scope of applicability as to make their positions utter falsehoods for large groups of people. The majority can see through their <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lies</a>, but adherents see <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/mendacity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mendacity</a> as the cost of doing business. But at least they believe what they profess and the means to get there. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> on the other hand, are facing a crisis of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/legitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#legitimacy</a>. The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/contradictions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#contradictions</a> between <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#democratic</a> values and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/foreign_policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#foreign_policy</a> have been laid bare. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Israel</a>/Gaza, the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TikTok</a> ban, and the heavy-handed <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#police</a> response to campus <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/demonstrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#demonstrations</a> have shown that democratic values will be tossed aside the moment they conflict with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#policy</a> goals and manufactured <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/consensus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#consensus</a>. It's not that people don't <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/believe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#believe</a> in the values Democrats profess; it's that people don't believe that Democrats believe in these values.

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