• ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    To quote NOFX’s song The Idiots Are Taking Over

    There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

    Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred

    Majority rule don’t work in mental institutions

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Well, we don’t even have majority rule. We have a system skewed to give Republicans more power than their numbers. The House radically over-represents the cons and their extreme right wing agenda. The EC puts in Republicans that the majority did not want.

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        11 months ago

        The Senate even more so, given that California has more people than like the lowest five states combined yet they all get two Senators.

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      11 months ago

      Friendly reminder that about half of eligible voters actually vote in presidential elections; less than half in midterm elections. People love to bitch and moan about our government, when half of them don’t bother to do anything about it.

      That last bit was less friendly but I’m very upset about this.