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Between gerrymandering, vote buying, disinformation, foreign interference and a host of local and often illegal ratfuckery tactics, the rich set up a system to keep themselves in power and the rest of do not have a say in the matter.

That's a why no major policy outcomes have reflected public opinion since the civil rights era.

I do not think future historians are going to blame the poor for the crimes of the rich and I don't think they'll be fooled into thinking that we've been living in a democracy.

ehhhh, people only think about the volk as a morbid afterthought

how much time do you spend thinking about broke french people from the Napoleonic era? or have you ever thought about middle class English people in the 1780s? most people in Nazi Germany were just broke or job-pilled or spendies, about as invested in and culpable of Nazi-ism as the assholes you see in a Red Robin in Indiana, that's basically your average American

sure volk are bad but in the most uninspiring and boring and forgettable ways

It did break laws it's just that laws don't matter

I tried googling Brian Allen but only saw a football player. I’m guessing this isn’t from the football player?

It's quite easy to blame the common people, but I don't think it's that simple. The American Empire has been carefully constructed in a way that would not allow any real opposition to exist under any circumstances.

The Americans keep voting against their own interests. You may say it's because they're stupid or ignorant. While generally true, can you safely pin the blame on them? In a system that consistently undermines and sabotages the educational institutions, as well as gives the people little free time to educate themselves on their own - is it through their own fault that they're uneducated?

Furthermore, no matter which one of the two parties you vote for - you'll still be voting against your best interests. It's only a matter of choosing how much and in what specific ways you preffer to get taken advantage of and abused. All major news outlets are run by friends and families of the government, so they'll never host actual opposition, meaning it might as well not exist.

Americans constantly fight each other instead of working together to overthrow the authoritarian regime. Well, what else can they do? A silly post online may lead to termination of employment, which carries with itself serious risk of going homeless. Protesting may, and often is, answered with brute, sometimes lethal force. Can't work with a broken bone, so you get fired and go homeless. Or die from police brutality.

This is not a new, nor a simple issue. We're talking about systematic problems that have been festering over the last 200 years. There isn't one single party to blame, and it certainly isn't the average Americans - they are among the victims here.

*A first past the post democracy

I'm prepping Anne Frank's Diary style over here, hope it doesn't come to it though

The idea that Americans think they had an empire speaks to the amount of propaganda to which they have been subjected. America was the leader of the western world from 1945 until, arguably, 2016, but really only led the world unopposed from 1992 tp 2016. 24 years is not an empire. 71 years isn't more than a few geo-political/economic decisions.

The founding fathers chose Roman architectural style for government buildings in order to evoke a feeling of ancient Rome. It is funny to me to see how often contemporary Americans have referred to the US as being like ancient Rome, no doubt for this reason.

Obviously this will upset Americans. I'm not looking to troll at all. I will add that us Brits are no different , in our own ways.