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Am I the only one that believe the US has to go through some sort of painful transition/civil war/revolution to fix it? Is reforms from Democrats enough? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The bourgeoisie will not allow their power to be voted away. There's a reason the choices in the voting booth are always so narrow; you're only allowed to vote for a candidate that they've pre-approved and bankrolled. Vote or don't, it doesn't actually matter.

you could say the same of every democracy that has ever existed, and yet they did (and do) exist.

I have a feeling we would disagree as to which countries are actually democracies.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I am curious, what is one country you would be willing to call a democracy?

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

🇨🇳

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

Any others?