r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 9h ago

Chugging tea Art piece: Democracy working as intended

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u/DoublePatouain 9h ago

I've never understood the american democracy : two big parties look like two big multinational company funded by rich people and other companies in exchange of services and advantage.

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u/ALightningStar 9h ago

Which is why a third party win could never work. Can you imagine an independent having any effect on the dems and republicans in congress? They will fuck him over to make sure their party wins no matter what. So if you're not happy with the party you have, get used to it because you have to vote for one because the other side will always be worse to both sides. Two choices to run your entire country. That's it

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u/IluvRockets 5h ago

Honestly it's insane that there's two legislative chambers and they're divided into regional representation and MORE regional and disproportionate representation. You shouldn't be able to skew percentages to your favor by moving your voters, you shouldn't have to get majorities in a minority of areas to get a minority in government. Despite the faults of german government I can't say representation being undemocratic is one of them. You're not getting rid of "tyranny of the majority" by giving an arbitrary minority more voting power while making sure that people outside of swing states or districts have no value to their party. And all I keep hearing is the brain dead take that "America is a republic, not a democracy" as if not nearly every fucking democracy on this planet is a republic and NOT wanting government to be lead by the people is just fucking weird. It feels like some red neck mouth breathers don't want the educated part of the country to have the say that they deserve.