points by navigate8310 2 days ago | 0 comments
If this is the case, then I shudder for democracies that look up to the US for inspiration on how to run their country.
[–] kakacik 2 days ago
[–] LtWorf 2 days ago
I'm not sure there's anyone left who does that without the USA army kidnapping their president or similar things.
There are many places which are more democratic and free than US ever was, its not a secret information but you won't hear about it in latest hollywood flick or fox/cnn. One only needs to travel a bit outside US bubble with open mind.
US system of 2 parties is pretty dumb if you think about it, artificial in pretty bad ways and not really transferable elsewhere. Constitution and laws which are less than toilet paper when power is taken by sufficiently motivated bad actor, 0 working checks and balances. It could have been worse of course if thats how we want to rank it, but we are not even in the half of it and something tells me we haven't seen the worst of it yet.