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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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IMHO, the almost idolatry of the Constitution in the US meant that a what's essentially a Prototype of Modern Democracy kept getting used without a systemic update for too long and was essentially relying on everybody being a gentleman to work.
Personally the whole part were the Political Pillar being in charge of nominating the top of the Judicial Pillar - the Supreme Court Judges - even though in Democracy those Pillars are supposed to be independent, always felt like a major weakness in the face of Authoritarian encroaching, as did the First Past The Post voting system.
That's the point I'm trying to make: the flaws in the American system are systemic, making it more easy from autoritarians (not just Trump's Fascists but also the Oligarchy that stands behind both the Republicans and the Democrats) to control it.
The main difference with the Fascists is how brazen then are in doing so, which the other bunch would be far more discrete (hence which the Prison population in the US was already so large under the "other" political party of the US Duopoly system).