alt Hacker NewsCulture is more important on whether or not a country can slide into a dictatorship.
Americans are ultimately conditioned to accept leadership. Belgians have never and never will agree on anything.
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NicoJuicy • last Thursday at 11:59 AM
Belgium has 3 official languages for 10 million people. It's a bit more complex :)
But when culture fails you, it's nice to have guardrails. This is why we have a constitution, law, institutions etc. It's defense in depth, it can buy you time and that's important because the more time you have, the higher chances that the wind start blowing in another direction.
This is why the electoral college is a weak point in American democracy and no wonder it was the actual target of the Jan 6th coup attempt, the Capitol invasion being merely a distraction. Weak points like this must sealed over so that the overall system is more robust to attacks.