• blazera@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Oh man wait til you hear about the Workers Party of Korea if election success is your measurement of democracy support.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, that’s definitely a relevant and insightful comparison to the US electoral system.

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        2 months ago

        If electoral success is your standard, then yes. The US is way more comparable to third world fascist states than anyone wants to admit, and a dominant political party leveraging its power to ban competition is one such similarity.