• wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      We have always been a democracy

      Including the time when white people could own black people as slaves? That democracy?

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The US founding fathers were very explicit about how they intended to set up a constitutional order that would protect their class interest against democracy. The last thing they wanted was to enable the unwashed masses to vote away their wealth and privilege.

    • iie [they/them, he/him]
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      1 year ago
      • 70% of Americans want singlepayer healthcare
      • 90% want universal background checks for firearm purchases
      • 75% want Citizen's United repealed

      and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?