El Salvadorans admire Bukele and want to go back to live there now. He has a 91 percent approval rating and has saved tens of thousands of lives of people who would have been murdered if he came along. You are so typical. You have more sympathy for criminals than their victims and for all the people in that country who lived in fear 24/7. Sick. |
Are you always such a black and white thinker? (Middle School debater rears his ugly head.) We are talking about something guaranteed to all people in the Constition/ As Trumpers on DCUM love to say, if you love El Salvador so much, why don't you move there? Personally, I would like to go back to living in a United States where we respect our Constitution and the right to due process. |
I have no sympathy for criminals. May they live out their long sentences in jail. I have sympathy for THE INNOCENT. I believe in the Constitution. Do you??? |
Putin also has an extremely high approval rating. You know else was extremely popular? Hitler. And Stalin. Oh and Mussolini. Also Mao Zedong. Go open some history books and come back when you have a more grown-up understanding of History. |
You are comparing someone who turned his country from a gang ridden hellhole with one of the most murders per capita in the world to a safer place than Washington State to Adolf Hitler? Really? Psycho. |
I can tell that critical thinking isn't your strong suit. We were talking about popularity. And I was trying to help you understand that there have been many beloved (allegedly anyway) leaders who aren't so popular in the history books. But if you want some comparisons of authoritarian leaders who made their countries safer while violating human rights and ignoring democratic principles, sure. I'll compare Bukele to Fidel Castro, Trujillo, and Pinochet. Off the top of my head. There are plenty more outside of Latin America. |
You can see Duterte Philippines to see how these guys cause more problems than they solve. |
Bukele is a fraud like Trump. He took credit for a trend that started 3 years before he was elected.
He imprisoned 85,000 people without any due process, harming far more innocent people than the gangs did! |
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And Duterte has been arrested, hasn't he? |
Initially the citizens love dictators. El Salvador has economic problems, no job growth. What will happen when poverty increases? He’s already eyeing a third term having made changes in their constitution and getting rid of anyone who won’t go along with it. Just like Putin and other dictators who refuse to leave did, freedoms for everyone will be gone, protests will be illegal, free speech will no longer tolerated, people will disappear . No one minded when laws that protected people civil liberties were lifted to round up people accused of being in gangs. Now a few years later the people’s civil rights have not been restored. The government is looking into families with no criminal backgrounds. The dictator becomes paranoid thinking everyone is out to get him and the military police are on every corner. |
You can't just rattle off claims with no links to back them up. Provide all your links. |
How do you know that these crime numbers are even honest? Dictators have no accountability and they can just make up statistics if they want to do so. |
Besides the list of states and murder rates, everything here is common knowledge if you keep up with national news. MAGA obviously does not read any news except extreme right wing and they won’t report these numbers because they go against what Trump is claiming. 2024 had 5,000 less murders than 2023. But Trump ran on the ridiculous worst kind of fear mongering claiming that the rapists and the insane and the murderers are pouring into our country. Here’s a good article about the murder rate has gown down for the past three years 2022 - 2024. https://abcnews.go.com/US/united-states-drop-homicides-2024/story?id=116902123 Here’s another site that shows the crime rate has historic drops in 2023 from 2022. Even more drops in crime in 2024. https://everytownresearch.org/report/city-data/ https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-murder-rates/ There will be differences depending on how they did the numbers. The whole state or just cities, per capita or total. But there’s no disputing that the crime rates went down when Biden was president. The immigrants did not come in and start killing. Trump ran on fear because he had nothing else. No economic plan, no education plan, no infrastructure plan, nothing. |