• OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      They literally have above 90 percent approval according to international studies from people as conservative as fucking Harvard University.

      You’re wrong about their institutions but regardless of what you think of their institutions they have a popular mandate, which is how democracies define themselves as legitimate.

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      Ah yes, because American democracy is going so well.

      Who’s interests are the Republicans representing? Who’s interests have the Democrats protected after being in power for 3 years?

      Democracy is meaningless if it doesn’t actually act to benefit the people. After all, the goal of government is to improve the lives of the people over which it governs. All of these experiments into different methods of governance should be evaluated based on how much the quality of lives of the population have improved and how happy the population is with their government.