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There is no reason to rise up. You can just vote. And it works just fine. And when your side loses, that's because democracy works. Sometimes democracy means
by glofish 7y ago
There is no reason to rise up. You can just vote. And it works just fine.
And when your side loses, that's because democracy works.
Sometimes democracy means that idiots will win if there were more of them. There is no cure for that.
- matthewdgreen 7y agoExcept recently it doesn't work that well. [1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/north-carolinas-legislature-tried-strip-power-new-governor-will-states https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/north-carolinas-legisl... [2] https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2019/10/us-supreme-court-overturns-michigan-gerrymandering-ruling.html https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2019/10/us-supreme-cou... [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/voting-rights-minorities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/voting-rights-minoriti...
- orev 7y agoThe cure for that does exist: it’s called education. That’s why the Founders were very clear that public education and libraries were so important.