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Gerrymandering, money in politics, the electoral college, disproportional representation, failing checks and balances. This isn't going to be solved in a decad
by jacquesm 10mo ago
Gerrymandering, money in politics, the electoral college, disproportional representation, failing checks and balances.
This isn't going to be solved in a decade, probably not even a couple of decades.
- shimman 10mo agoAll because the elites got too greedy and decided to destroy the only successful labor movement in America (the New Deal coalition) because they wanted more money.
- no_wizard 10mo agoThe funny thing is it’s all cultural. It’s not some intractable thing, the path to fixing all this has been available for a long time. It’s a well studied domain with practical solutions abound. But enough of the US citizenry that I share the nation with seemingly can’t see beyond their own horizons. No matter how bad it is, there is still enough people who can’t possibly see the value of the government doing anything useful. Government is exclusively the enemy. And in turn those who seek to ransack the system do so under the guise of pushing back against so called “government overreach” (a deliberately vague term) and continue to give the general public the raw deal