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0 pointsonethought5y ago0 comments

US is a pretty bad implementation of democracy.

- Non compulsory voting - first past the post - superpacs - the electoral college

All contribute to an oligarchy, not a democracy. The US system seems to be designed to “feel” like a democracy while actually preserving the power of moneyed interests and land owners. It’s crazy to me that the UK has less if an oligarchy despite still having a monarchy.

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chaostheory5y ago

This is the best short description of what the US and other Western governments are today. My only thing that puzzles me is why traditional authoritarian governments haven't copied them yet

onethoughtOP5y ago

It's mostly the US... New Zealand, Taiwan, Australia do it much better.

Of course the media is still an impressive machine of control (see Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent), but again even the media is a little bit better outside the US.

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