• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      No you’re right. America only pretends to be a democracy, but it most definitely is not. The electoral college alone causes some people’s votes to be more important than others. Then there’s the first-past-the-post system where you only need 50% of the votes to get 100% of the electors, which screws up things even more. And finally, many people are unable to cast their vote in the first place. Nothing about that is democratic.

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        2 hours ago

        And despite all of that, you still focus the blame on the voters, instead of on the system which is working exactly as intended, including your part in it which you are actively playing while convinced you are really opposing it somehow (you’re not).

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          2 hours ago

          okay and what is your plan to change that system? because I don’t think Trump being president is going to help with that