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WTF USofA? Does China win on democracy now?

• adventured 9y ago
  Yes, why don't we just pretend that all other democratic systems are always perfect and have never had immense problems. That's obviously what Italian, Spanish, German and French history from the last 200 years would teach us, right? The US has one of the oldest, mostly unbroken democratic systems in world history. Just go back to eg 1840 or 1890 and take a look at all the nations of the world and their government systems at the time. Nearly the entire world was more than century behind the US in adopting any form of representative government. It's a small miracle it still functions at all given the cruft that has been stapled on over two centuries.
  • keganunderwood 9y ago
    Don't forget the English who recently promised Scotland so many things before the referendum and conveniently forgot them once they eeked out a narrow victory. Democracy isn't just about going out to vote. Easy to say but I feel like a hypocrite as well.
  • zimpenfish 9y ago
    > mostly unbroken democratic systems A system that vastly overpowers the southern states, allows rampant gerrymandering, and doesn't even guarantee voting rights to its citizens is neither democratic nor unbroken.