More modern democracies like Taiwan have 5 branches of government because thing like the DoJ is just too powerful to be part of another branch.

I blame Chappelle Roan for not being more clear on who we should vote for /s

Tbf, Harris and Walz came out swinging. In the beginning they were calling JD Vance weird, but then Biden’s staff took over and wanted a more conciliatory tone.

Yes, the majority are fine with Trump burning things down over the current two party choice. That’s what democracy has informed is the case. It’s so idealistic reasoning to think it would have happened any other way.

Anyone who thinks they can debate voters into voting for someone they don’t like after saying all that is also a complete moron. I would never question your intelligence so I assume this is simply to feel better about the situation.

It’s one of those “every accusation is a confession”. People are thinking about themselves when talking about others.

They are also normalizing “disappearances”, where they arrest someone and then they can’t be found in the system.

Both sides acting like they would have won the war. This is going to end well…

You make it sound like democracy is a linear phenomena. There are likely tradeoffs

While I agree in not surrendering any power through inaction, voting is not the only say you get. There’s 100 other things one could do as well that could make things less shitty.

It’s what Kirk would have wanted RIP

Is there a newsletter but it’s just about what evil person has died for that day? I feel like there’s a good market for that.

Guy literally has cancer. It’s friggin elder abuse what they did.

Liberals: I can fix that voter, I just need to find the right logic combo in my persuasion.

Also Liberals: if voters were rational they would vote for the lesser evil.

Keep lecturing people, I am sure it will work this time around.

Or it could be that the Democrats are so unpopular that a billion dollars can’t win them an election. No, you’re right, it’s because of Russia the Democrats failed to communicate their platform effectively.

Say the same to yourself bud. How many more people need to die before you realize the system is the problem, not the people voting. Because it seems y’all only care when it’s Americans that die.

They write the rules and we use it as an excuse to not escalate.

Clinton was notorious for polling people and changing positions, but that was not by referendum. Sometimes our pundits play loose with words and pretend polling is a referendum because we don’t actually have referendums. See also “democratizing” when it just means “commodotizing”

Indeed. Democracy does not exclude anarchy and in the case of the UN it’s a voluntary union, each member is free to not participate and ignore the decisions made by rest of the union. People often criticize the UN as having little authority - that’s because it’s anarchistic in nature.

If there is a point to my example it is that society is a patchwork of ideologies, there is no “pure capitalist” society just as there is no “pure anarchistic” society. So to say one ideology does not work as totalitarian society is different then saying it does not work at all.

I mean we have the UN which doesn’t have any one nation in charge. Geopolitics tends to be anarchistic.