CMV: People posting on Reddit claiming that Democracy is Dead do not act in a way consistent with that claim
There are plenty of posts out there freaking out about Trump's illegal (and other legal but stupid) actions. And a certain degree of freaking may be called for, although people seem to forget that everything takes time, including court cases
But some have gone beyond freaking and claim that Democracy is Dead and Trump / MAGA is King, and the End is Nigh
In which case... dude, why the hell are you stupid enough to leave an electronic record of your objection to Dear Leader taking charge, if you believe it is not only inevitable but already a done deal?
Fully granting that people have a charmingly naive understanding of how little privacy there is online, you don't see people calling Putin a dictator on the the equivalent of Reddit in Russia because there are serious, real world consequences for doing so. People who have objections to him keep them to themselves, or have those quiet conversations with trusted peers without electronic records
Therefore, the people claiming that the law is dead and nothing will prevent a fascist takeover of America either a) don't actually believe that or b) are... really, really careless with how they'd deal with an actual fascist takeover of America
I'm not saying there aren't people who truly believe that Democracy is dead out there. I'm just saying there smart enough not to post on Reddit about it.
Edit: To be clear, I am not stating that posting on social media is not useful in raising concerns about a *potential* or *pending* authoritarian takeover; my statement is that if the people in question believe an authoritarian takeover has *already succeeded*, they're making some strange choices