It varies from state to state, it’s usually been handled by some sort of state bureaucracy with all sorts of restrictions. Which I still think is a crappy, broken system, but less crappy and broken than the housing market. They still housed non-party members.
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Replying to @OhNoIts2016 @KEEMSTAR and
Without rule of law, a free press and democracy their are no checks to ensure the honesty of a bureaucracy or government. 2008 crisis Cause 1) deregulation of banking sector enacted by Bill Clinton 2) government backed lending to poor credit risks - NINJAS.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Many Leninist states are more “democratic” than the United States (not China though), but I don’t recognize either as a fully legitimate form of democracy. They have de facto ruling classes. I’m strongly supportive of a free press, strongly opposed to banks & the housing market.
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1. Which Leninist states are more democratic than the US? Elites will always exist. What matters is how they gain power, can they lose it, and is access to the elite limited by birth etc, and not merit.
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Cuba, Laos, USSR until Stalin, and many defunct states
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Prior to Stalin is questionable, though Russia was recovering from WW1.
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Again, I’m not saying it was a real democracy, but it had a slightly more valid claim to democratic rule than the U.S. government does now
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How is the US government not democratically elected? Trump like Brexit had everyone, include a large part of the GOP against him and still won.
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There are three levels you can look at this on: 1. A majority of voters voted against Trump. 3 million more voted for Hillary, plus all the protest votes. 2. Congressional makeup doesn’t reflect pop vote 3. Public opinion has no effect on policyhttps://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 …
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3b. No Poll of western voters I have seen, has ever shown support for migration at current levels, let alone the increases in 2015 and the US is seeing now. Trump, just as Brexit spoke to that. Is this racism? How can it be the voters who elected Trump vote for Obama twice?
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https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/03/14/around-the-world-more-say-immigrants-are-a-strength-than-a-burden/ … The small but significant portion of Trump’s voter base that also voted for Obama was likely motivated either by economic factors, or by the vague promise of change.
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