• xmunk
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    The US political system is simply poorly designed and political brinkmanship appears to always be a winning move. Before Trump McConnell was thoroughly destroying America’s reliability.

    • crank0271@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      The founding fathers just could never anticipate a populace or a political party with nearly the degree of cynicism as we see. (Also the founding fathers likely did not intend for us to get stuck in a 250 year old rut, but rather to evolve the system, which has not happened as intended.)