It is a very very hard time to stomach the facts that a majority of Americans voted for both a different President, and a different Senate (in two elections now!). Functioning democracy would benefit this great country.
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Replying to @colmmacc
The system was designed to create contention. It is working as expected.
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Replying to @ddosguru
Definitely not as expected by me, a person who likes to live in a democracy.
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Replying to @colmmacc
Is it only a democracy if everyone is largely of the same political party and agrees on all of the issues?
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Replying to @ddosguru
In democracies, the majority of voters decide the result. We teach kids this.
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A representative democracy, perhaps. But when I learned about our political system in middle and high school, we had examples of using the in-built checks and balances while working towards common goals. Not sure we still have that.
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I don’t think we’ve ever worked toward common goals. The checks and balances is deliberately obstructionist. It was implemented by founders who were primarily concerned with limiting the power of government.
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And the original setup was far less democratic still, e.g. the “election” of senators, or voter eligibility requirements. The American System was explicitly never meant to be a democracy.
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... or you know that whole thing about slaves not having any right to vote, along with other basic rights, and all women not far behind.
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Very flawed v1, but not all bad. It’s important to see why they chose what they did and the problems they were avoiding. Issues faced today were called out in founding-era docs as risks, and mitigation attempted via some undemocratic processes. Unclear it hasn’t mostly worked.
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