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by throw10920 612 days ago
...and yet it works better than any other system in existence.

The only people who want to dissolve the US system are those who wish to take advantage of a weaker system for their own benefit.

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What kind of American exceptionalism is that? There are countries significantly more democratic and happy than USA.
> What kind of American exceptionalism is that?

This is emotional manipulation and not an argument.

> There are countries significantly more democratic and happy than USA.

Red herring. None of those countries are near the size of the USA. Policies and governance systems are not scale-invariant, and there are many naive ideas that sound good on paper (and may work for small groups of people and/or short timescales) but do not stablely scale to 100 million+ people.