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  Robust public education, independent journalism, safe elections, human rights, equality and justice - these are the pillars of democracy. Let us promote democracy in our home and defend it in our community. Anywhere, everywhere, defenders of democracy - rise up.
context: Robust public education, independent journalism, safe elections, human rights, equality and justice - these are the pillars of democracy. Let us promote democracy in our home and defend it in our community. Anywhere, everywhere, defenders of democracy - rise up. >
  
  Yeah that's nice but if that were really true then half our allies, wouldn't be our allies, and all I have to do is go over to Worldnews to find that out. I support all those things here and abroad but clearly a lot of people don't with what I've had to hear from others since 2016 when a dictator was elected president >
  
  That’s because the US doesn’t really support Democracy, here or abroad. We support unlimited access to materials that we can extract. Oil, rare earth minerals, humans, etc. >
  
  Why are msnbc videos suddenly showing up in the subreddit? I barely skim the articles... there's no way I'm watching a video. >
  
  Post more sound clips!! >
  
  But mark it clearly as video, so we text-only folk don't keep accidently opening videos! Please. >
  
  We don’t support democracy overseas here in the US. Just ask Guatemalans about Jacobo Arbenz. >
  
  That was more than 60 years ago. The U.S. isn't the same country anymore, nor is our foreign policy. >
  
  We are currently propping up/ supporting at least two genocides right now.  Our foreign policy has been to occupy and terrorize two different countries in the other side of the globe for nearly 20 years. What are you talking about the US isn’t the same country that it was 60 years ago? >
  
  Which two countries? We left Iraq more than a decade ago and only came back the second time because they asked us. It is a really hard argument to make to say the US was worse than the Taliban in Afghanistan. >
  
  The sheer number of foreign Countries and/or Govts (including fairly elected democratic Govts) that the USA has invaded /overthrown is 2nd to none. These are well documented facts, not opinion. >
  
  Oohhhh burn. >
  
  One country being the key phrase there >
  
  What a novel concept!