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  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Because they don’t believe in choice, freedom, or even democracy. They merely support the ideal and facilitate the illusion.

    Anything that empowers voters to either dilute the two-party hegemony (where both parties are accountable to the same pool of donors) or elect party members that haven’t been carefully vetted by insiders is a threat to entrenched power structures. Adding roadblocks now ensures that transitions to better systems are made that much more challenging via peaceful and lawful means.

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      22 months ago

      To be fair I’m really starting to get tired of “peaceful and lawful means”, solely because it’s being used to trample our rights.