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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think everyone being forced to elect would yield better results.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As opposed to FPTP, gerrymandering, multi-layer representative cutoffs, regional vote weight balancing, or the D'Hondt method?

What's your basis to think that?

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's democracies that are not the USA, you know

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. I highly encourage everyone to learn about how "democratic" they actually are.

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're gonna have to explain that if you want it to mean anything

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure:

Indeed.

Expression of agreement with the previous comment.

I highly encourage everyone to learn...

My wish is to improve the knowledge of the reader and anyone else...

...about how "democratic" they actually are.

...about the different political systems which get called "democracies" by different countries around the world, and how their practical applications differ from the idealized concept of "democracy".

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not american and know about half of those words.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not USA-n either, so only most of those apply to the flavor of "democracy" I get. It's still a good exercise to know about the options.