(July 23, 2025 at 3:01 pm)Rizen Wrote: Americans have proven democracy doesn't work. There are three groups: 1 the people who work with science and facts who genuinely want a better country for all groups of people, 2 the science denying Christian nationalists who want rich white, strait, Christian men to control everything, and 3 the appallingly stupid undecided voters who are just pissed about everything without any understanding of how things work and inevitably vote for the other side to take back power after each administration.
I think this analysis is oversimplified. It ignores the drastic economic inequities in our society, and the power that the rich wield to sway the opinions of the poor and/or ignorant.
I think that we've been an oligarchy dressed in democratic clothing for some time now.
