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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The USA hasn’t resembled anything near democratic for a bit

What fantasy land are you living in?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Russia, probably.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, really. America has fucked up their democracy... It started good, for sure, but it keeps getting eroded (unrealistic time constraints, arbitrary boundaries and silly vetoes or weightings). I'm just sitting from the hip here, certainly no expert

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Only white male landowners could vote when it started

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a very good point, I do concur. But it used to be a lot better just a (few?) decades ago

...And yet most of the rest of the world is streaking way ahead in terms of basic liberties

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Tell me, what is the likelihood that a publicly supported measure will become law on a federal level? And what about one that the public doesn’t support?