• sportsjorts@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    So more war crimes. Yay. Proud to be an American were at least I know I’m shackled to a government run by pedophiles, corporations, and foreign interests.

    Let’s make everyone in the U.S. vote and see what happens. I feel like at least once before the great experiment totally implodes we should just try that once since we are so fucking free and are the best fucking democracy ever……

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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      3 hours ago

      The one thing putting the brakes on the far right in Australia is the fluke that we put compulsory voting into our constitution (it was an experiment at the time, I’m inclined to think it worked out). While we have, perhaps, more than our share of fucked up rabid racist assholes, they have to get over the hump of the majority of not shitty people, and so far it’s failed to happen. The Overton window, neoliberals and Murdoch media have done significant damage but some sense of sanity prevails.

      After your revolution you might consider it but I suggest Open Democracy (no elections, random selection yearly or so from the populace to form government bodies. Ala the original Athens democracy. Representative has shown itself to be not representative and easily corrupted, we should move on. )