It's not democracy that's in retreat, it's the EuroCentric imperialist system in retreat because it is losing on nearly every dimension. And when the imperialists start losing, they lean hard into liberal power structures and abandon abstract liberal values, which the privileged members of those societies read as fascism. In actuality the control structures liberal societies apply to its oppressed members are the same as the ones they apply to privileged members when they are in retreat.

You want democracy? Overthrow liberalism.

Ah yes, its EuroCentric imperialism to want to preserve the environment and the sovereignty of indigenous people that live there.

Trying to stop power from being consolidated into a single corrupt individual who threatens other countries, implements rightwing, religious, and authoritarian policies is just the imperialists attempting to hold power. We need a führer general secretary president like that who will usher in real democracy.

Democracy is under siege. It is not retreat. Democracy has yet to begin fighting at all.

Corporate, private interests are the exact opposite form of power to democracy. We cannot keep democracy and allow private wealth holders to maintain their individual influence. Anywhere private power concentrates is a threat to the group power that democracy is. Individual power is the most personal self-interest, the cruel, the narcissistic, the psychopath, the sociopath, these are the biggest threats to everyone else and are the root manifestation of power concentration and democratic dissolution. Corporate power and business power must be brought to heel or the loss of democracy is inevitable. There are no democratic corporations.

We could all be happy and content but no, no, these greedy fucking parasites need to ruin the world...

No, psuedo democracies have failed and are taking their natural course.

The Epstein class needs to go. The world can’t afford these parasites

Democracies have always brutalized the vulnerable to extract wealth and have hierarchical abuse - non-citizens, minorities, migrants, lower class workers, women, etc. The difference between liberalism and fascism is whether the in-group is expanding or shrinking.

When black people are murdered by cops and enslaved for self-medicating their anxiety, it is called the high point of liberal democracy we wish to return to. There was progress, after all.

But now white people are murdered by cops, and so the sky is falling.

It is, of course. But if you want a world without an "Epstein class", without greedy parasites, without racist exploitation, then we should not return to liberal democracy. We have to structurally abolish the hierarchies that allow there to be powerful people above scrutiny, and we should recognize no boundary of privilege like citizenship.

We need to bleed the earth of some right-wing cockroaches every 80-100 years. It's time again.

I didn't even need to check what instance you were on before knowing what instance you're on.