(11-07-2020, 01:11 PM)GethN7 Wrote: Gotta say, irrespective of who you wanted as President, I lament we're repeating mistakes done in countries once considered parody of actual democracy. Now the US has little room to criticize.
The US never had much room to criticize, except possibly and ironically in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. Because immediately after that? The states that rose up in rebellion were forced to embrace a number of election regulation reforms that enfranchised minorities just so they could have representation with voting power in the federal legislature.
Of course, in the decades since those had been nibbled down to the point that when the whole civil rights movement kicked off they were trying to reclaim rights they had 100 years ago.
To put it quite simply, the USA has one hell of a PR campaign, but it's terrible at living up to it.
Well, unless you are white, male, and rich. Although being an Anglo-Saxon Protestant also helps.