Comment on US criticizes Germany for labeling AfD 'extremist'

• SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We no longer have one. Our elected leader is gone rogue.

  Besides, our current leader has never received the majority of the popular vote, and our voting turnout has never been as much as half the populace. In my lifetime, no president has ever received so much as 60% of the popular vote.

  The theory is good, but any idea that any President is representative of what the US people want is sunny not true, verging on impossible.

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• VeryVito@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You are right in that’s not how democracy works. Unfortunately, due to gerrymandering and Citizens United, it’s how the U.S.’s bastardized version of it “works.” Thanks to gerrymandering in my state (which is a test bed for much of the nonsense we’re now seeing at the federal level), I have absolutely no voice in our state legislature, which has recently decided to neuter the other two (actually democratically elected) branches of government here.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So it’s game over?

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    • VeryVito@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not quite over, but the chances of establishing a majority large enough to effect change are fairly overwhelming. The U.S. needs a pretty big education campaign to teach folks how democracy is actually SUPPOSED to work, but those in power certainly won’t be the ones to initiate it.

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The government is not a representative of the majority, he is elected by a majority to be a representative of the whole. That’s how democracy works.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are right - this is what i meant.

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