• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The louder and more often a politician proclaims some great quality, the less true it is.

    America, with it’s voting system designed by landowners to mathematically create a power duopoly, is at best straddling the boundary between Democracy and Dictatorship, which is why you end up with situations like this, were all there is two anti-choices (“vote me ´cause I ain’t him”), somewhat better than what’s going on in Russia but far from good enough.

    All that harping about Greatest Democracy In The World TM is pure compensation.

    • Wiz@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      They thought, “We don’t want tyranny if the majority!”

      But then we ended up with tyranny of the minority, and that’s worse!