• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Previous presidents are only part of the equation.

    The other part is having a society that isn’t stupid enough to elect a felon rapist pedophile insurrectionist.

    The situation we find ourselves in is as much American’s fault as it is our politicians. Actually moreso, since those politicians are only there because of American’s decisions.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it’s antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.

      It’s set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.

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      3 hours ago

      The ruling/owner class has waged a decades-long war to undo the forward momentum of the New Deal.

      There’s plenty of blame to go around, but most of it belongs to generational wealth and the “haves” not the average person brainwashed by poorly funded and heavily propagandized public education.