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Citizens United MOMFUDSKI Mar 2024 #1
Private and corporate funding is our doom. Citizens United was the coup de gras. Marcus IM Mar 2024 #3
Liberia? usonian Mar 2024 #2
The Philippines' system is directly based on ours. BlueTsunami2018 Mar 2024 #4
Oh, yes. Forgot about that one. The US forced their system upon their conquests after the Spanish American wars. Marcus IM Mar 2024 #7
Cuba did. Until 1976 when they changed to a parliamentary system. Marcus IM Mar 2024 #5
The Philippines Diraven Mar 2024 #6
We try to be an exporter of Democratic Values JohnSJ Mar 2024 #8
Certainly not by setting an example. n/t Marcus IM Mar 2024 #11
That has never been the objective, and the aftermath of WWII is an example of that with the Marshal Plan JohnSJ Mar 2024 #12
And with the US's Monroe Doctrine before that - and still going on. Marcus IM Mar 2024 #13
And fail far more often than not NanaCat Mar 2024 #15
We can only look down on those not like us, and work without ceasing to overthrow them. Judi Lynn Mar 2024 #9
It is so effed up malaise Mar 2024 #19
Uruguay: Senators, representivives, president, supreme court, departments (states), governors, constitution sanatanadharma Mar 2024 #10
TY for the description. Marcus IM Mar 2024 #14
Not to mention the filibuster and electoral college dalton99a Mar 2024 #16
Indeed. I updated that into the OP. TY. Marcus IM Mar 2024 #17
Sure needs reforms malaise Mar 2024 #18
If spreading democracy was the goal, it has failed. The "experiment" even endangered here at home. Marcus IM Mar 2024 #20
Mexico is the closest but there are some others in the Western Hemisphere prodigitalson Mar 2024 #21
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