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0 pointsintended1y ago0 comments

Man. Nothing is wrong with the voters.

There is just a lot more power invested in republican elites than democrat elites than we realized.

There are organized efforts, decades long to skew courts, remove laws, increase dysfunction to prove the point that government fails.

Medicare was based on Romney’s model, and he was forced to disown it because the party would rather be partisan than give democrats a win.

Partisanship, divisive politics get you here. It gets you Fox News, and infowars. It gets you the idea that everything is a liberal conspiracy, like evolution.

Hell, people heard “build a wall” and were cool with it.

I believe the term that was coined by republicans for people whose feelings are hurt was snowflakes. the

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DEADMINCE1y ago

> Nothing is wrong with the voters.

I don't understand how anyone can genuinely believe that.

Half the population has an absolutely astounding and embarrassing level of education, think things like climate change are hoaxes, don't care about the constitution and just want Jesus' word to be law, etc etc etc.

The problem is absolutely the voters. It's also why this model of democracy is actually kind of terrible unless you have an educated population. We're basically watching the fall of the American Empire here.

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