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Bemoaning Ohio results, Santorum says ‘pure democracies’ aren’t how to run a country (thehill.com)

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Saying the quiet part out loud

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[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago

You seem to have missed the part where I pointed out that the US system was deliberately designed to be almost impossible to change.

What part about this do you not understand?

There is no magic "so fix it" switch.

This is a part of our system because it was what was necessary to account for slavery.

We can wish that this wasn't the case, but wishes aren't worth shit when it comes to facing hard political reality.

If it helps you to make sense of it, think of US democracy as a very old and buggy operating system that's almost impossible to update because it's full of ancient proprietary software that doesn't play nice with contemporary applications and that is supported by a large number of citizens who dislike the very idea of updating because they fear that it will somehow result in a net loss for them.