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    5 days ago

    The US has pretty much never been a real democracy (other than in a roman sense, as in “power belongs to rich men”).

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      45 days ago

      In the Roman sense, it was never a democracy, in the sense that we vote for representatives, who then in turn vote on stuff for us. Er, I mean for the corporations. So you can see why this system is so prone to abuse.

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        55 days ago

        Every Western democracy votes for representatives, direct democracy isn’t really a thing (except for partially in Switzerland). But many countries actually manages to represent the voters with their representatives, the US system definitely doesn’t.

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          15 days ago

          I think you mean that many countries manage to let voters have i say along with all the other interestsgroups on the country, of which many are corporations.