cm0002@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agoThis is finelemmy.mlimagemessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1947arrow-down126
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minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·edit-21 month agoThat no system is perfect but one of them lasted centuries in multiple countries and one always failed within years, if not immediately. Also, US failing so hard is mostly the result of the two party system. That shit never really worked properly.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThrow in gerrymandering, a first past the post primary system and the electoral college and you get we’re we are today. Sprinkle in a dose of Citizens United and the oligarchs get all the power the need/want.
That no system is perfect but one of them lasted centuries in multiple countries and one always failed within years, if not immediately.
Also, US failing so hard is mostly the result of the two party system. That shit never really worked properly.
Throw in gerrymandering, a first past the post primary system and the electoral college and you get we’re we are today.
Sprinkle in a dose of Citizens United and the oligarchs get all the power the need/want.
exactly