• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Free and fair elections have never been anything but an ideal in this country. It started with voters were wealthy landowning men, often who owned slaves.

    What we’re seeing is years of undermined reforms by the momentarily wealthy after the previous empires in europe tore themselves apart.

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      30 days ago

      Meh, I would’ve given 3/5 stars to U.S. democracy since the Voting Rights Act. Stars taken away for FPTP, gerrymandering, campaign finance, “lobbying,” and the electoral college. I believe we’re going to go to 0/5 stars with completely rigged elections rather than just manufacturing consent and lightly tipping the scales like they’ve been doing.