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Dems really should have unfucked the electoral maps by now. They are too confident that they can keep playing the good cop on us even though the bad cop is a monster
Part of the issue is really that we're on Modern Constitutional Republic version 2.27, when we should be on version 3 or 4 by now. The hero worship of the "founding fathers" has made it difficult to change anything structurally, and the government is creaking under the weight. I don't know how healthy it is for a large and diverse country to have rule by the metropole with a purely popular system, but the level of overrepresentation of rural voters is a real problem, and we can't do anything about it. Maybe at a minimum the president should be elected by popular vote.
The city always asserts itself, one way or another.
You have been banned from /c/Pyongyang
It's not hero worship, it's the status quo. Look at your elected representatives: largely rich, white, male Catholics. The founding of this country favored them, and they've fought progress every step of the way. The spectre of the Founding Fathers is just to hide the racism and class warfare from the idiotic masses.
And how did you expect that to happen?
I didn't say I expected it
politicians are really good at promising anything, convincingly - but pretty shit at following through.
I haven't heard a decent political promise since Obama, the current promises are "I will do batfuckery" and "I am not that guy"
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