• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You wrote all that to say “politicians bad” and haven’t related to anything said above. The fact of the matter is - US isn’t a democracy. A choice between two parties with “no chance of anyone else winning” isn’t a democracy. Especially since both sides are basically the same.

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        8 months ago

        What do you mean how so. Compare political parties in Europe, or the state of workers rights etc.

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          8 months ago

          How so, as in, well, all of it. You said what I said unrelatably translates to “politicians bad” while saying the US isn’t a democracy and that the two party system, which you say is the same on both sides and keeps losing peoples from winning, stunts absolutely every option. Votes keep losing peoples from winning. There was a time when the Republicans were the liberal ones and the Democrats were the conservative ones; that switcheroo doesn’t happen in a fixed game, neither do many of the things that seem to be about to happen.

          If we’re to say the US isn’t, to at least some workable extent, a democracy, what would that even make Europe, who haven’t even fully stepped outside monarchist systemic principles? Depending on the country, you will find a large swath of nations in Europe (infamously Spain is like this) don’t have a glamorous working culture. Note that there is also the “customer aspect” of culture, i.e. if workers get the short end of the stick, consumers may get the long end, or vice versa.