• Tak@lemmy.ml
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    It’s not really a democracy. Public opinion has absolutely no impact on whether something is made law or changed. The overwhelming majority of Americans support legalizing weed and medicare for all but neither goes anywhere.

    The US is an oligarchy that pretends to be a democracy to get people fighting culture wars instead of class wars.

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      The overwhelming majority of Americans support legalizing weed and medicare for all but neither goes anywhere.

      1. Legalizing weed has made massive strides in the past decade, after some 50 years of drug war.

      2. I wish the other one was true

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          Good on Hawaii! Not sarcastic or bitter, legit, good for them. The rest of the states would do well to follow Hawaii’s example.

          Unfortunately, I suspect that’s not going to be overnight.

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        “A majority of Americans continue to say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.”

        Your own source says so

        But let’s add more:

        https://www.citizen.org/article/public-support-for-medicare-for-all/

        Recent polls indicate that six in ten Americans support Medicare-for-All. In addition, more than 60 percent believe that government is responsible for ensuring health coverage for all Americans. And nearly 70 percent of all voters, including battleground voters, identify health care as an important issue in upcoming elections.

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        The only reason the first one is true because it’s something the states can actually do. Not sure if any states have been trying to make a healthcare plan but I imagine that’s a lot harder to do then just saying weed is legal now. Basically right now stuff only gets done at a state level in America anymore with how divided and unproductive Congress is.

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            MA is basically the equivalent of a northern European country hiding in the US. Honestly, it’d pretty much be an oasis, save for the fact nobody can actually afford to live there.

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      Duopoly. Where both big businesses collude to maintain the market shares between them. DNC & RNC.

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      It absolutely is a democracy, just an extremely flawed democracy. If democracy were a scale from direct democracy to North Korea, then the USA would sit somewhere in the top third of countries.