• enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You have to be brain dead to think there’s democracy in the US. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, two senators per state, the electoral college… Wake up.

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      1 year ago

      I used to live in Alabama. This is a version of what they want. But I also agree with the chump who said “it doesn’t affect me”. Because that’s what allowed all the atrocities of history to happen. Sometimes you have to stop evil people from being evil.

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      1 year ago

      I hear you. But looking around, the ratio of fools to wise people in government looks proportional to the population at large. Have you considered that direct democracy would just be the 4chan version of government?

      And I’m only half kidding. Egalitarian political movements, even before Marx, have found “the people” to be much less noble and wise than anticipated. I believe this is a partial explanation for the revolution to authoritarian pipeline problem. Be it Bolivar, Lenin, or Castro, what do you do if the people vote for the old system, even when it’s contrary to their interests? Well, the historical answer seems to be: force them bitches to be free.