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Originally Posted by loramin
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If you break the law, you get in trouble. If a popular vote creates a law (many states allow ballot measures) ... or if your peers elect a legislator who then passes a law ... and you don't follow that law ... it's a crime.
This goes both ways: the rich helped make the Vietnam war happen, that war instituted a draft, and perfectly peaceful, law-abiding citizens who wanted nothing to do without colonial expansion were forced to fight or go to jail.
It's 100% shitty ... but again, people are going to be shitty sometimes. All (American-style) democracy does is ensure that, despite that shittiness, we don't start killing each other over it every fifty years or so.
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American style democracy does not ensure that - a culture of consumers who are stupid and dont think school is valuble and watch tiktok does.
It's the culture of the people that are decaying - not our electoral system.
Capitalism.
Like I got a guy over here with a polar bear hat avatar talking about how killing people in the middle east keeps us safe.
Everything about our culture has collapsed in favor of 'perceived' security and toys, our election system is not the problem!