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BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Global Order (consortiumnews.com)

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[–] [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] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You might find this book pretty informative about USA democracy, especially that "few decades ago" period.

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