US Authoritarianism

919 readers

399 users here now

ChonkyOwlbear is an Illegitimate Usurper

There's other groups and you are welcome to add to them. USAuthoritarianism Linktree

See Also, my website. USAuthoritarianism.com be advised at time of writing it is basically just a donate link

Cool People: [email protected]

founded 10 months ago

MODERATORS

ChonkyOwlbear

1398

The US is Politically to the Right of [Other] Democracies (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by alphanerd4 to c/usauthoritarianism

231 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its less democratic, but not completely undemocratic.

It's completely undemocratic. Public opinion has no influence on policy whatsoever. Most Americans are in favour of Medicare for all, of legal abortions, of rising taxes on corporations and the most rich people, and much much more. But study after study shows that public opinion has no influence on policy, as in, they're not even correlated.

[–] meekah 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that's less of a problem with the way a representative democracy works, but rather with corruption and thus capitalism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I wasn't referring to the concept of representative democracy itself, I was referring to the particular case of the US (though I'd extrapolate it to most liberal democracies in western countries)