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This comment is going to be upvoted because it's America-in-its-current-form bashing and there's obviously truth to what you're saying the problems are. The dir
by kaesar14 6y ago
This comment is going to be upvoted because it's America-in-its-current-form bashing and there's obviously truth to what you're saying the problems are. The dirty little secret is this IS American democracy at work. It has ALWAYS been rife with voter suppression tacts, and disenfranchisement at scale. The Internet and the current political chaos allows the world to see it all in its ugly glory, but there are many people alive who lived in a country with LAWS that prevented minorities from voting. If we were once the beacon of democracy, by those standards, we still are. It's just a pretty low bar.
- pm90 6y agoI agree with the spirit of your statement. However, the VOting Rights Act places strict requirements that mostly prevented some of the most egregious forms of voter suppression that we are seeing today (strict ID laws, fewer polling places etc.). The VRA was gutted very recently and it has directly lead to a resurgence in these un democratic laws. So for people who may have been vaguely aware of American democracy for the past few decades, it is a fact that America has become less democratic in that time.