Every time I look into another bit of US electoral law, I have a harder time understanding their "democracy" obsession
Every time I look into another bit of US electoral law, I have a harder time understanding their "democracy" obsession
So you're telling me that, not only are federal elections decided by states rather than votes, but each individual state has their own set of laws to prevent you from appearing in the ballot? And it's somehow still fine because "you can just do a write-in vote"?
My favourite one is the Texan one, where you need to have gotten boatload of votes in order to appear on the ballot.
For a registered political party in a statewide election to gain ballot access, they must either: obtain 5% of the vote in any statewide election; or collect petition signatures equal to 1% of the total votes cast in the preceding election for governor, and must do so by January 2 of the year in which such statewide election is held. An independent candidate for any statewide office must collect petition signatures equal to 1% of the total votes cast for governor, and must do so beginning the day after primary elections are held and complete collection within 60 days thereafter (if runoff elections are held, the window is shortened to beginning the day after runoff elections are held and completed within 30 days thereafter). The petition signature cannot be from anyone who voted in either primary (including runoff), and voters cannot sign multiple petitions (they must sign a petition for one party or candidate only).
In Democratic America, you can only win elections if you've already won the elections.
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The only people that still call the US a democracy were just told all their lives that it was and never looked into it themselves.
The moment they decided on a representative system was when people should have accepted that it was never a democracy to begin with.
I feel like everything about the US's public perception is only because it is just stuff people state as true without investigating. Everything the US claims to be, or claims to be good at, is just a flat out lie.
This has become more and more apparent to me, especially after reading more theory and history(as best as I can find that doesn't have a Fed/school system bias).
LIke is it crazy sounding to state that the US is actually a Fascist system? On the surface, I totally get why leftists can get hazed for saying that but like, sure we aren't 1940s Nazi Germany but look at how we have taken over the global south, glassed the shit out of Iraq twice for it's oil, and even politically use the same tactics that Fascists in history have used for political discourse. Media has done a great job of building a facade that the US is a functioning democracy when it's closer to a mix between an oligarchy and maybe a quasi-monarchy(if you consider that each president comes from extremely wealthy families with a lot of power, especially over the last 5 or so decades.)
The USA is 100% a fascist dictatorship from the perspective of working class BIPOC both within and without its borders. If you are rich and/or white and cisgender, it’s a representative democracy.
Absolutely agree.
Largest prisoner-per-capita and largest prison population on Earth, felons get disenfranchised from voting, cops kill over 1000 people a year, police are militarized and alienated from the communities they police, and half the presidents in my lifetime lost the popular vote.
Also absolutely agree with you. Forgot the part about losing the popular vote since I've only been paying attention to the real numbers since after Bush Jr.
I think media and basic history education focuses expressly on Nazi Germany as an example of fascism rather than Italy at the same period, because they have essentially the same symbols (in terms of the US stealing the Roman's aesthetic and national myth) and methods for controlling the ballot.
For sure. And like from my memory of history class, since we had to be taught that we were the good guys, we were taught that both Germany and the USSR were equally bad. This is a comparison that gets brought up literally all the time and I know we've all seen in all over social media. But regarding what made Germany fascist, it just always felt very glossed over. I didn't even consider this until I started getting push back from people when I even mentioned that Trump was at least a little bit fashy(plot twist, he's a lot a bit fashy). So like, can't even tell these people that our system is also fascist. Republicans will flatout refuse and Dems for sure won't buy it lol.