It's all these slices at the heart of democracy that have me questioning whether we actually function as a democracy. We are spending an inordinate amount of energy keeping the minority from rigging the system and failing. It gets rigged, we pass laws to even things out and those get torn apart later.

Euros don't seem to understand this and I tell em - Look, we're as big as Europe up to Russia. Germany is the size of Montana. You got cultures? So do we. At least eleven different cultures. We have no little idea what practice eahc of your countries has that is anti-democratic, but we're sure you have some. Most of you rewrote your government after WW2. It's too hard to rewrite ours and we wouldn't agree anyway. So we're stuck in this endless loop where we legislate to make things fairer and that gets watered down, parts declared unconstitutional,etc, etc., and personally, I've been taken aback by how much depended on norms. It looks like we are stuck in an ever changing struggle to keep things fair democratically, and we're losing. There's no fix because we're polarized and one side accepts horrible practices.

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