My apologies it wasn’t intended to be condescending.
I should probably clarify that I understand that a lot of things predate Trump, and at the US political apparatus work to defeat through leftist movements.
My only issue is that these things need to be complimentary.
You started out by saying that America wasn’t a democracy, while technically true, is pedantic at best and dismissed the nuance of the original comment.
Then when I point out your lack of nuance and boiled down their argument so you could understand it, you explained it as “pointing out misinformation” and perhaps innocent, it seems like dismissal when taken with the original comment I don’t see how a reasonable individual wouldn’t know they were using it informally to refer to their Congressional system.
That’s awesome that you want people to be involved in activism but activism does not and should not proclude voting for progressive candidates and perpetuating that it’s a lost cause will not win any battles.
Again, talking past someone. It’s not close, engaging in war without Congress, using the purse without Congress are drastic and alarming departures from the norm.
You’re using sweeping generalizations to vindicate doing nothing.
This is not useful. You again dodged their meaning and avoided engaging. No where is completely free and the road between democracy and fascism is a spectrum. They obviously articulated that this administration is stripping away freedoms.
I mean it’s the same question we’ve been asking all our lives about the animals, fetuses and now AI. When does it stop being a flowchart and start being a consciousness.