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Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social |
I know we have a counter majoritarian system. I am familiar with the constitution and our history. I know why this is technically possible. I am asking whether it is tenable to keep thinking of our country as a democracy when it works out like this.
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Lance Ellisor
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Scott #ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉
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Kinda sounds like we need to take the state legislatures and use this constitutional convention the Kochs et al have been working on to actually fix things
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Dag.
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Senate situation is going to only get worse. With rural states furthering losing ground population, the counter majoritarian problem will only get worse.
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Lila 🏳️⚧️
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Waiting unhappily to see whether “iT’s A rEpuBLic nOT a DemOcRaCy” twerps live on BlueSky or if that’s just a Twitter thing
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Ali Fleih
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The Framers were deeply distrustful of direct democracy. They attacked it again and again at the Convention. They saw it fail several times elsewhere, believing it ultimately leads to mob rule. In the end, they chose representative democracy, where people vote for people who vote on their behalf.
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Peace, Truth, Science
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For presidential elections at least, we were always only a democracy by coincidence.
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Chase Burke
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I've never seen a real defense of why our system should work this way other than purely tautological statements. It's insane!
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