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Is it bad enough to say that we aren't a democracy, because some people 250 or so years ago came up with a system that has some cracks today? I'm not seeing it. "Some cracks" doesn't even begin to describe the problems with American "democracy". I think you;ve been overly influe...

Little while ago you said: I can't say I know much about Bolivia. Well, yeah. We have google now. A few search terms took me to the State Department and to Human Rights Watch. Funny thing about that money=speech idea. Far as I can tell the corporate right to free speech isn't about any freedom to s...

as far as i know, our electoral process is particularly non-democratic compared to other modern democracies. the electoral college sux; gerrymandering and redistricting; I assume that's why we get 50th in "representation". Not everyone's vote is equal. That's bad. It should change. Is it ...

US State Department doesn't care for anti-plutocratic, left-leaning politics, surprise, surprise. Human Rights Watch isn't too kind to Bolivia, either. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/bolivia?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwudexBhDKARIsAI-GWYVt6FhTxEK1Vx4Jm2UyvoC-z3ZuyJxuLGFLV...

US State Department doesn't care for anti-plutocratic, left-leaning politics, surprise, surprise. Human Rights Watch isn't too kind to Bolivia, either. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/bolivia?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwudexBhDKARIsAI-GWYVt6FhTxEK1Vx4Jm2UyvoC-z3ZuyJxuLGFLV...

I would challenge you to show me any modern democracy that doesn't have elements of plutocracy in it. Bolivia. Its current president Luis Arce is no plutocrat. He has an interesting political history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Arce A democracy resisting its wealthy elites faces serious hea...

Here in America, the poor can rise to the top, though, and the rich aren't automatically able to gain political power. True, anybody can get political power if they can raise enough money . The candidate with the biggest war chest wins. That's objectively false. I've seen analyses asking that very ...

It surprises me that anyone can think that America is a democracy. It isn't. America is a plutocracy wearing a democracy's shirt, and not a very clean one at that. I would challenge you to show me any modern democracy that doesn't have elements of plutocracy in it. Here in America, the poor can ris...

stanky wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 4:11 am i shudder to think i'm praising Trump.

Maybe "praise" was too strong. Favorable comparison to Biden, with respect to militarism.

that ship has already sailed, imho. (Stated in regards to democracy) One of the biggest problems in America today is that people don't realize how good things are. We really do have democracy. It isn't perfect. Lots of room for improvement, but we basically have it. If we ever lose it, people will ...