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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 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)