• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    Right, like “democracy”.

    What is the form of government of the fictional nation of Panem?

    I would not describe Panem as a democracy, as the satellite districts have no effective voice in their own governance. Panem is missing anything resembling a Senate.

    Currently we have a system where a minority of the people tell the rest what to do…

    That is absolutely false. California is free to establish law for Californians, regardless of what Montana has to say about it. California doesn’t have to listen to Montana.

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      9 hours ago

      California doesn’t have to listen to Montana.

      They have to listen to federal law and each person in Montana has way more federal representation thru the electoral college for president, Senate because every state gets two, and House because the number of seats are frozen.

      Both chambers and the Oval they have more representation.

      How is that not the minority telling the majority what to do?

      Like, this has to be working even a little right?

      There’s no shred of doubt in there?

      Because buddy, I got doubts on how much I’m gonna be able to help you understand, I can’t make this any simpler. So hopefully you needed just that one comment.