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Hexbear admin just sent me this. lol. lmao even.(lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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We have always been a democracy

Including the time when white people could own black people as slaves? That democracy?

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SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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The US founding fathers were very explicit about how they intended to set up a constitutional order that would protect their class interest against democracy. The last thing they wanted was to enable the unwashed masses to vote away their wealth and privilege.

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iie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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  • 70% of Americans want singlepayer healthcare
  • 90% want universal background checks for firearm purchases
  • 75% want Citizen’s United repealed

and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible

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Grimble [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.net
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Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?

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