Functioning democracy [citation needed]
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Saddest part is this will get no attention. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will be done about this.
functioning democracy
doing a lot of work here
USA USA USA USA !!!
The title implies we haven't been the most unequal society for the better part of a century.
From the start, right? Like chattel slavery and settler colonialism is about as unequal as you can get
Yeah. Even my comment is understating things.
yeah it was literally always that way
The article is written by a lib, so have to account for the biases there.
“Functioning democracy” 🤡
There was the big election where the sitting president was replaced. I guess that's something.
Except when it doesn't happen:
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Bush II did not win the election, he was appointed before the recounts were even tallied.
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Trump was appointed to the presidency after losing the election in 2016 to Hillary Clinton by the Electoral College. Hilary won by 3M votes or 2% of the vote.
Literally two presidents during my lifetime failed to win the popular vote and every time this occurred it was to the benefit of a largely unpopular political party who used technicalities built into the Constitution to overturn the democratic will of the people. Funny how it never has worked in the opposite direction, almost as if it was built-in with that idea in mind.
We do not have a democracy, we have a sham system that puts the interests of business before the interests of people.
Yeah, one could argue that a functioning democracy would prevent the kind of wealth gap we have.
Or, you know, someone who looses the popular vote to loose an election.
Or, multiple parties that actually have different platforms.
Lmao
Think about it, you could be out helping instead of counting suffering as a win for yourself. I guess you do you 🤡
I don't live in your shithole country. I just watch the clown show from the outside.
Oh no, you insulted the same country I insult daily, I am so hurt.
The cool thing is me being able to shit talk my own country for their errors. I do it more than any other country on the planet. You'll never know the feeling that gives you.
It's true I'll never know what it's like to be a deranged American. I'm thankful for that every day.
People, we have a Canuck modding our comm. We can no longer sit back and allow Canadian infiltration, Canadian indoctrination, Canadian subversion, and the international Canadian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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Yay!!!
"Our poor people are the poorest" sounds suspect to be honest - Haiti? Congo? If you count $200K in student loan debt as poorer than $0 across the board, sure, but if you go by actual quality of life, there's no way.
The article is qualifying it as the poorest in the developed world.
"our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth" - Does this mean that the author doesn't count the developing world as functioning democracies, but does count all of the developed world as functioning democracies?
that tracks with the author clearly being a lib
I find it ironic that they chose to use an AI generated image rather than pay a photographer or an artist.
I think this is just one guy not a corporation.
I used they rather than he or she because I did not want to assume a gender.
Or a model who is actually representative of the poorest people that they are trying to illustrate the plight of.
is that fake old white guy not homeless-looking enough for your standards?
No lol the fake person is plenty homeless-looking... But it's a fake person.
So you're telling us we're number one?
American exceptionalism baby
lol, "functioning".
also lol, "democracy"
"developed world" threw me for a loop
Hartmann will never stop believing in liberal democracy because it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.