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by handrous 1660 days ago
> That's what (I think) Winston Churchill said about democracy (might be true there).

As E.M. Forster put it (from memory, so I'm sure less well-worded than the original):

"So, two cheers for democracy—there's no occasion for three, two is quite enough."

> But here, I think you can just "we have the worst system". Period.

Yeah, our system's about as bad as it could possibly be and have held together this long, true. And our country's too disunited to ever fix that without breaking apart to do it.

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> And our country's too disunited to ever fix that without breaking apart to do it.

A tribe that lacks a serious external threat often goes to war with itself.