@marklevinenyc

Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)

@marklevinenyc
What I love about this scene that will repeat itself today is American sharing with other Americans, joyfully, orderly, with civility, enthusiasm, no matter what.
Enjoy your line, enjoy the chat with your neighbour, enjoy sharing with a stranger in line while both wait to vote.
It’s a privilege that only comes every 4 years, aknolwdge that and enjoy that privilege.
People in most of the world don’t have that privilege.

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@Twitter_expat @marklevinenyc
Is that true? I'm pretty sure that, in this century, democracy has actually become the norm. I think we focus so much on the big dictatorships and the few places that have regressed to undemocratic systems (as Trump asks us to) that we forget that democracy is a stable and popular system.

Yeah we can think of Russia and China and North Korea, but the the norm is democracies like Brazil, South Africa, India, Japan, and literally every country in Europe and North America. Even with the exceptions to that, the question is how democratic they are, and the trend seems to be towards becoming more democratic over time...

...which is why I keep telling people that if we vote for Kamala Harris, we will be able to push for an even more democratic system moving forward.

Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)

@Raccoon @marklevinenyc

Russian and Putin will be seeing this with utter cynicism and dismissal and deep in the core with resentful jealousy. They will never experience it in their country. EVER. Never Russia or their people will experience a free and fair election.

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@Twitter_expat @marklevinenyc
Except they did have this at some point, then in the 2000s they were given the same choice we have now, and made the mistake of electing Putin. They now regret that decision.