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AnarcheAmor wrote

Ah, this is the first time in a while a politician has said that out loud but it isn't new. A lot of thinkers throughout time, including anarchist ones, have said democracy sucks.

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AnarcheAmor wrote

Wait, what part are you disagreeing with? I think we're saying similar things here unless my middle of the night comprehension is failing me.

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AnarcheAmor wrote

Ohhh okay. Writing only two sentences probably didn't do me justice then either.

To expand, I have heard Republicans say they have issues with democracy but I've never heard it being said so directly. Typically, they would use another term like mob rule, popular voting, voter fraud, etc., etc.. My position is that those on the right are inherently anti-democratic.

The second sentence was more or less the product of an internal tangent. I understood that he was only arguing for a defense of the electoral college but I also just placed his argument under a list of arguments of why democracy sucks since members of the first Congress have said the same thing when defending their decision to make the electoral college and they were inspired by philosophers who said democracy sucks who got their beliefs from... you see where I'm going with this.

And thus my confusion as to what we disagreed because my inherent agreement with the stuff you said wasn't conveyed in the two sentences I used to convey a bunch of other thoughts. I really gotta do better about that.

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AnarcheAmor wrote

Ohhh okay. Writing only two sentences probably didn't do me justice then either.

To expand, I have heard Republicans say they have issues with democracy but I've never heard it being said so directly. Typically, they would use another term like mob rule, popular voting, voter fraud, etc., etc.. My position is that those on the right are inherently anti-democratic.

The second sentence was more or less the product of an internal tangent. I understood that he was only arguing for a defense of the electoral college but I also just placed his argument under a list of arguments of why democracy sucks since members of the first Congress have said the same thing when defending their decision to make the electoral college and they were inspired by philosophers who said democracy sucks who got their beliefs from... you see where I'm going with this.

And thus my confusion as to what we disagreed because my inherent agreement with the stuff you said wasn't conveyed in the two sentences I used to convey a bunch of other thoughts. I really gotta do better about that.

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Basil wrote

I mean he's not wrong. The U.S. was built to keep the rich white men in power while oppressing, the poor, women, and especially enslaved people and native americans, not to give anyone a voice.

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