• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago
    1. The US doesn’t have a democracy and never has.

    2. Trump was already president once and we didn’t have “a complete breakdown of democracy.”

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      5 months ago

      If the US doesn’t have democracy then “negotiation voting” will do nothing either.

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        That’s not really true. Pretty much every system needs some buy-in from the masses. Even a king can be swayed by the threat of a peasant uprising.

        Also, saying it’s not a democracy isn’t the same as saying that votes have no affect on the outcome. The Holy Roman Emperor was elected, but that doesn’t mean the empire was a democracy.