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Maybe they are right, the current system doesn't work, and the answer is to switch to democracy? Plenty of sensible policies have popular support in America an
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
Maybe they are right, the current system doesn't work, and the answer is to switch to democracy?
Plenty of sensible policies have popular support in America and have done for a while. Americans are not as dumb as their politics would suggest.
- jl6 2y agoAmerica is a “flawed democracy”: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/21/why-america-is-a-flawed-democracy https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/21/why-amer... The path to improving it does not go via vigilante murder. Some form of immigration control now has majority support. Should people go round executing immigrants because that would be more directly democratic?
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoSo I'm arguing for democracy. I'm a fan of it and you see a lot of prominent people even within the US (Theil, the GOP, Curtis Yarvin, as well as burned out doomers) arguing and working against it so that is not just pointless posturing. Democracy generally works well, and America becoming a poster child for "Why Democracy is bad" is a development that could lead to real horrors, at home and across the globe. You don't have to condone political violence to support more democracy to avoid it. Even in nations, like the US, where political violence is celebrated every single day.