lol, "functioning".
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also lol, "democracy"
Hartmann will never stop believing in liberal democracy because it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
"developed world" threw me for a loop
“Functioning democracy” 🤡
Yeah, one could argue that a functioning democracy would prevent the kind of wealth gap we have.
Or, you know, someone who looses the popular vote to loose an election.
Or, multiple parties that actually have different platforms.
There was the big election where the sitting president was replaced. I guess that's something.
Except when it doesn't happen:
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Bush II did not win the election, he was appointed before the recounts were even tallied.
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Trump was appointed to the presidency after losing the election in 2016 to Hillary Clinton by the Electoral College. Hilary won by 3M votes or 2% of the vote.
Literally two presidents during my lifetime failed to win the popular vote and every time this occurred it was to the benefit of a largely unpopular political party who used technicalities built into the Constitution to overturn the democratic will of the people. Funny how it never has worked in the opposite direction, almost as if it was built-in with that idea in mind.
We do not have a democracy, we have a sham system that puts the interests of business before the interests of people.
But your system isn't based on direct popular vote for the president. You vote for state electors and then they vote directly and the candidate who gets the majority of those votes wins. It's not a failure of democracy or elections not happening or being rigged if one with the simple majority loses to one with more state elector votes. It's just your weird system at work.
We do not have a democracy
You've had a few swings of the balance of the parties, replacing a sitting president and now upcoming presidential elections. The elections are mostly free and fair with large enfranchisement. I'd call that a democracy, even when the system has some interesting quirks and isn't working as well as it could be.
As for Bush vs Gore, I remember it being a big and controversial thing at the time but don't really know the specifics.
I find it ironic that they chose to use an AI generated image rather than pay a photographer or an artist.
Or a model who is actually representative of the poorest people that they are trying to illustrate the plight of.
is that fake old white guy not homeless-looking enough for your standards?
No lol the fake person is plenty homeless-looking... But it's a fake person.
Ah fair enough.
I think this is just one guy not a corporation.
I used they rather than he or she because I did not want to assume a gender.
then they'd have to pay someone. ironic indeed
functioning democracy
doing a lot of work here
So you're telling us we're number one?
American exceptionalism baby
The title implies we haven't been the most unequal society for the better part of a century.
The article is written by a lib, so have to account for the biases there.
yeah it was literally always that way
From the start, right? Like chattel slavery and settler colonialism is about as unequal as you can get
Yeah. Even my comment is understating things.
Functioning democracy [citation needed]
Saddest part is this will get no attention. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will be done about this.
"Our poor people are the poorest" sounds suspect to be honest - Haiti? Congo? If you count $200K in student loan debt as poorer than $0 across the board, sure, but if you go by actual quality of life, there's no way.
The article is qualifying it as the poorest in the developed world.
"our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth" - Does this mean that the author doesn't count the developing world as functioning democracies, but does count all of the developed world as functioning democracies?
that tracks with the author clearly being a lib
Yay!!!
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