alt Hacker NewsDemocracy is good until the public votes for something unpalatable. In that case they were lied to and/or they are unfit to choose for themselves.
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unethical_ban • yesterday at 10:39 PM
Did they say "Democracy is bad"? For that matter, did they say "Democracy is good"?
No, they didn't. In case you don't know, that's called a "straw man fallacy".
ujkhsjkdhf234 • yesterday at 12:18 AM
Are you saying they weren't lied to? Like Trump saying he knew nothing about Project 2025 which was a lie.
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const_cast • yesterday at 4:33 AM
> unpalatable
See, this is a weasel word. Nobody said it was unpalatable, they said it was bad, because it is.
Do you want bad things to happen? No? Okay then, everyone should be on the same page.
We can actually show that the American public are lied to, and continue to be lied to.
Yes - I can get the point you are making - “democracy for me but not for thee” is BS. Sure!
But the evidence is that theres one media network which is simply selling whatever story works, along side a 50+ year effort to kill trust in institutions. We can even show that the republican machinery gave up on bipartisanship - hell, it’s even public knowledge.
But that wouldn’t make a whit of a difference to voting patterns, or your point. Because your point doesn’t need to be based in the long history of complicated malfeasance that rots all English speaking democracies. It’s anchored in your current state and argument.
So yeah, people voted.