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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1101447" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>I don't think this is the case at all. With Trump they had a leader chosen by a minority of voters. Not even a plurality, an actual minority. Republicans have not beaten Democrats in the popular vote in 2 decades (excluding Bush's second term) and yet have stacked the supreme court and been in power for half the time with the ability to block legislation for a bit more. The country is now overturning Roe Vs Wade that approximately 75% of the country support in favour of an extremely vocal and aggressive minority. Those at the top of politics represent an even more select elite than in the UK. Wealth inequality is even worse than ours and 3rd parties have even less chance of getting any sort of power than they do here, and that's saying something. The spectrum of accepted political views is heavily shifted to the right and much narrower than here with anyone even holding what we would deem centrist views being branded a socialist or Commie and being virtually unelectable. They have not had a grand total of 1 president who was not a white male and Atheists have no representation at all at the federal level, with very reduced representation at lower levels.</p><p></p><p>The US has a system that in theory should be more representative but in reality it really isn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1101447, member: 56232"] I don't think this is the case at all. With Trump they had a leader chosen by a minority of voters. Not even a plurality, an actual minority. Republicans have not beaten Democrats in the popular vote in 2 decades (excluding Bush's second term) and yet have stacked the supreme court and been in power for half the time with the ability to block legislation for a bit more. The country is now overturning Roe Vs Wade that approximately 75% of the country support in favour of an extremely vocal and aggressive minority. Those at the top of politics represent an even more select elite than in the UK. Wealth inequality is even worse than ours and 3rd parties have even less chance of getting any sort of power than they do here, and that's saying something. The spectrum of accepted political views is heavily shifted to the right and much narrower than here with anyone even holding what we would deem centrist views being branded a socialist or Commie and being virtually unelectable. They have not had a grand total of 1 president who was not a white male and Atheists have no representation at all at the federal level, with very reduced representation at lower levels. The US has a system that in theory should be more representative but in reality it really isn't. [/QUOTE]
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