Perhaps the greatest aspect of American government — the Bill of Rights — is structurally anti-democratic. "Democracy" is not magic fairy dust that you sprinkle on a political system to make it work. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1059104514995818497 …
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
also democracy isn’t always a good thing, like with the Nimby problem in US land-use/zoning mechanisms
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US land-use is an engineered combination of the worst of central-planning and free markets; the commonly quoted factoid (used to dispel allegations of housing shortages) about increase of average US house size belongs in the same bin as the anecdote about Soviet chandeliers:pic.twitter.com/6RsZccGhli
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