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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But with just some VERY MINOR tweaks to the system, the "views of the people" would be very different. In the US, the system is OPENLY engineered to preserve existing power structures, in ways that have accumulated over the decades (Jerrymandering, Electoral College and First Past The Post all add up...)

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

And everybody over there is beginning to work together and rise up against it...