Im trying to figure out how historic it will be if america continues the way it was. Has a functioning democracy ever feel like this. I mean obviously nazi germany but that democracy was so young.
Im trying to figure out how historic it will be if america continues the way it was. Has a functioning democracy ever feel like this. I mean obviously nazi germany but that democracy was so young.
I mostly meant that a 2 party system consisting of 2 right-wing parties & a horrible voting sysem doesn’t exactly scream “functioning democracy” to me.
We have 6 parties in our german parliament, from pretty left to extreme right. 75% of the population want to stop arms deliveries to Israel (only 17% want it to continue). Guess what is happening.
Yeah its hard to say how we came to this. The founding fathers thought every state would be running a candidate. This consolodation which continues (senators, house members, and even presidents used to look at the office they held in a way that they would break from the party. Its a bit hard to describe but like the house seeing the senate as overstepping with a bill that should be put for by the house because its budget oriented or such). I think they were worried about to much fractioning rather than such lockstep bs we have today. Granted though the rights were to prevent groups in power from oppressing other groups but again we have a situation were one party only cares about us vs them than rights, democracy, rule of law, etc.
@ferric_carcinization @HubertManne Oh shit, more “both sides same” bullshit.
Scientific evidence that they aren’t: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/
I’m not saying that they’re the same, they’re just both right-wing.
@ferric_carcinization Compared to you. Darn those Democrats for not wanting to smash the state.
Not compared to me, compared to the political parties where I live. From what I’ve read about them, the USA’s Democrats are, at best, comparable to center-right parties here.
@ferric_carcinization It’s a big tent, ranges from Republicans who only run as Democrats to get elected (DINOs) to social democrats who’d like a European level of safety net. But we are hamstrung by an electoral system that puts a lot of power in the hands of resentful rural voters (descended of one that protected slavers).