Serious question:

Where did democracy go wrong?

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When they forgot that leaders(and anything relevant) chosen by people without skin in the game has catastrophic results.

What do you mean? It might be a terminal illness due to crude oil and nuclear weapons, but that's not really clear yet, it might just be part of the process of evolving into a higher form of animal

Legal bribesโ€” money in politics

Itโ€™s inherently bad. 51% agreeing on something does not remove the rights of even one individual.

sure, your personal freedom ends where democracy sets in. good point!

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It didn't. No country actually has it fully, no will they until governments can no longer control the money.

You say that like we had it

Where did it go right? Words are for twisting.

I think a big driver has been 'party' politics.

The idea that we vote for individuals to make good decisions on our part isn't that bad. But that they then group up and the partisan interests are more important than the individual opinion of the person you voted for.

Democracy is mob rule so itโ€™s wrong from the start. Iโ€™d say our โ€œdemocracyโ€ is an illusion though. From my perspective we have big government and big business in bed with each other, manipulating the docile masses into cheering for their own demise.

Rigged vote counting.

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