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Escurumbele

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11. We need to take those comments seriously, many of them are correct, it is the buffoon's legacy.
Sat Dec 4, 2021, 04:06 PM
Dec 2021

And to the buffoon's defense, it did not start with him, he is not that clever, this is the legacy of the republican party as well.

If anything the buffoon did right, not on purpose of course, was to uncover the vulnerabilities of our Democratic system, it was designed with the assumption that honest, patriotic people would run for office, the buffoon was not in the mind of those who wrote the constitution, although it should have been because of their experience with royalty (dictatorship).

The Chinese are correct, our Democracy has too many problems, the fantasy that we are number one in the World is just that, a fantasy perpetrated by politicians to move the masses. There are so many flaws in our system that must be fixed.

How can we claim we are a Democracy when we have something like the "Electoral College" where a minority can prevail against the wish of the people? In a real Democracy the majority wins, not in the USA, which is why it allows republicans to win while being a minority.

And how about a "Supreme Court" which is politicized and votes against the wish of the people as well?

Gerrymandering, changes on voting laws, disenfranchising of minorities, etc...how can we call all that a Democracy, where do all these things make us number one in the World?

The so called "rule of law", and "no one is above the law" does not hold true, we know this is all a fantasy as well. The rich get away with murder while the poor suffer.

Lets not try to defend the indefensible, we are a broken Democracy, and have been for a long time. Let us not forget that the first step towards fixing a problem is recognizing there is a problem.

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