• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 hours ago

    This kind of goes as a warning over what happens when a democracy isn’t set up in such a way to prevent this thing from happening. Just getting rid of first past the post elections could’ve helped in preventing this and had given us a more balanced government that wouldn’t have been so easily captured by moneyed interests.

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      57 minutes ago

      The electoral college was actually intended to prevent this exact scenario. Of course, it failed spectacularly.