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Shock new poll shows that adults increasingly think political violence is necessary to ‘get country back on track’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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Majority of those surveyed still disagree with political violence

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[–] ItemWrongStory@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do think it's possible to vote your way into a situation you cannot vote yourself out of.

Like, for example, the way the system is currently setup gives much more representation (and therefore power) to smaller states. To change that, we would need to amend the constitution which would require a super majority. When have institutions willingly voted to give up their unearned power?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of how much I hate the US's voting system. It's almost as much as I hate how complacent the general American population is about it as if it's somehow fair.