Doesn’t the coal industry control your government? And remind me where Rupert Murdoch came from.
If I vote for blue one term and they don’t perform I’ll vote red or green or independent next term.
uh, I’m pretty sure that’s a factor top how America got to the way it is.
witten@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look up “gerrymandering” and then come back.
Psiczar@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Interesting, learnt something new. Thanks.
ysjet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yyyyeah. Unfortunately we’re not actually a democratic nation- land and especially money count for more than actual people when it comes to voting. Gerrymandering just reinforces it, and ensures an undemocratic result.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
the original version of USA was more explicit about land mattering, because you couldn’t vote without it.
insomniac@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
America is like the beta version of liberal democracy that launched far too soon with a constitution full of bugs and the developers decided to make it nearly impossible to patch.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s no excuse… everybody knows the Republicans kept on cheating with gerrymandering and still Americans voted them in over and over.