• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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    10 days ago

    Now watch the effects ripple through the world. Now that a guy like him can be elected, politicians around the world will take note and use the same playbook. And it will probably work.

    We already felt it in France with the 2016 US election, I can’t imagine what the next decade will be like…

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      8 days ago

      I see everyone pointing the finger at the wrong place. We have two corrupt privately run parties. First past the Post literally puts us here. Places like Sweden won’t have this problem because they allow their politics to represent nuance rather than two corporate parties. Meanwhile, the UK which DOES have FPTP, is watching NHS get eroded by the same brand of neoliberalism that strip-mined the entire American economy.

      sweden’s parliament a few years ago