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Hmmm. How they collect and spend our money isn't really part of the definition of the word democracy. And while the "two-party system" is rife with problems that I'd like to see fixed, I've never seen a general election ballot that had less than five candidates for the office of president. We can even write-in a name on our ballot - I know this because I've done it more than once and still my vote was processed and counted.

sms 9mo ago

The definition just comes down to the one picked:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy

In any of them, it has to do with who "makes decisions, policies, laws", because that's where power and purpose of it are. Money is st the centre.of that worldwide.

And NONE of that is made by you!

The voting is a facade - as Americans say, " A dog and pony show" to keep everyone on the tax plantation.😂

Even in real brutal dictatorships, they put up more than one candidate in elections and votes for them are " processed and counted".

The fact of your "democracy" is that if the candidate has no money of powerful PACs, they play the same role on that ballot as the alternative candidates in a real modern dictatorship.

At national level, your third party candidates get single digit percent - not even close to getting to make any decisions, because it's a "winner takes all" system.

No coalitions!

So, ends up that half the people take turns forcing the other half to live by rules to which LITERALLY HALF the voters and actual taxpayers don't consent.

Worldwide, we see this evidenced by how much your side is squealing after years of your opponents squealing.

It's pure idiocracy! Enjoy!😄

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Milcom Miasma 9mo ago

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Limited by my character count so not an ideal space for me to write responses.

Coalition governments have benefits as well as their own set of problems (Italy - lots of government turnover, France being forced to accept Le Pen on the national stage. Germany now fighting a fascist political presence again.)

Given all I've read on Mastodon in the last year it's interesting that you think we're the only ones "squealing."

sms 9mo ago

That there are some squealing on both sides, shows that you don't have even a "two-party system".

It's a uniparty - a " purple party", as I've heard some there call it.

There are parasites in both factions - "rich" and "poor" - of that uniparty that rely on continuous, cancerous growth of gangsterment spending, power and bureaucracy.

That's been so, right from the constitution of 1789, when there were no formal parties, but already the same two crony factions - Federalist and Anti-federalist.

Fascist , BTW, in original Italian, means those faction groups - not the opposite of "democracy"or Trump.😄 You've distorted its meaning in America -same as with " democracy".

You've properly had a fascist government of the uniparty, since the #GOP " Party of Lincoln" kept you "voluntary" marriage of states together through a mass murder in the 1860s #secession war.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism