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What high expectations. I'm hopeful this election will be the trigger that makes the mainstream consciousness reflect on democratic republic systems' grave sho

• davesque 10y ago
  I hope so too, honestly. But, for now, the system is what it is. I think congressional elections are a much better place to work for that change.
• frogpelt 10y ago
  "reflect on democratic republic systems' grave shortcomings." And do what in response? Abolish the current system of government? In favor of what?
  • leppr 10y ago
    Who talked about abolishing? If the only way to change the status-quo is to completely discard the current system, that means it's clearly not flexible enough and indeed has to be abolished. But I doubt that's the case. Open up, experiment on small scales, improve incrementally. We keep calling that system "Democracy" as a shortcut(/newspeak), maybe it'd be good to indeed try pushing it toward a real democracy?
• eanzenberg 10y ago
  Could it be better? Sure. Could it be worse? Yes. Could it be a lot worse? Fuck yes.