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Voltaire2

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3. well he and his buddies designed a system that deliberately rigged the presidential elections to not
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 06:58 PM
Sep 2017

be a majority vote system, and put together an upper chamber of congress that also took a giant poop on representative democracy. It was not entirely his fault, other emerging republics of the period also were implemented by wealthy elites who absolutely did not want the great unwashed masses to have a say in how things were run. Plus slaves. We implemented a Republic that legalized slavery.

It would not be until the mid 20th century that we decided that actually "one person one vote" was sort of the point, managed to enfranchise all people instead of only some, and even then only halfheartedly as we continued to maintain both the electoral college and the vastly unrepresentative senate (although a bit earlier we at least started electing senators instead of appointing them.)

We are at the moment staring at the emergence of a one party system, which is sort of the inevitable outgrowth of a corrupt two party system. It is not implausible that in the relatively near future voting here will be about as meaningful as it was in the Soviet Union.

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