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[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The USA has one party: the capitalist party. They do not represent you, they represent corporate interests. Your vote doesn't even really matter because of the electoral college, and other racist relics such as the Senate, giving ridiculous power to to just a handful of "swing voters".

Voting once every 4 years for either the capitalist war monger or the other capitalist war monger, while they both ban 3rd party candidates from the ballot, does not make the USA "democratic".

Edit: also who cares if it's one party? In each of these cases the party has brought the entire population out of abject poverty (usually the result of capitalism exploiting them), increased education surpassing the USA, brought healthcare to all, have higher home ownership rates than the USA, etc.

Objective quality of life measurements all surpass the USA.

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