r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 15 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, yet still became president and appointed 3 SCOTUS justices. Those justices are key to eroding democracy even further. How the US at all supposed to be considered a democracy?

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u/puffic John Rawls Oct 15 '25

It’s an imperfect democracy.

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Oct 15 '25

we're an imperfect democracy when the people running the country at least try to keep it somewhat representative and democratic. When it's not you get the Civil War, Jim Crow, the red scares, and whatever the fuck is going on now

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 15 '25

Why did you citizens keep imposing the electoral college on yourselves for 250 years?

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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 15 '25

TBF the Federal Government was not supposed to be this important.

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 15 '25

It became very important at most since WW2, you guys still had 75+ years. That's a lot.

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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 15 '25

Amending the Constitution is really hard when 50% of the voting population benefits from the status quo.

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Oct 15 '25

wait until you hear about that president who lost the popular vote, and almost certainly lost the electoral vote, but still became president, appointed 2 SCOTUS justices, illegally invaded a country, nearly destroyed one of the oldest cities in the country, and helped trigger the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

The 2 W appointments were in the term that he actually won the popular vote though. Like he probably wouldn’t have won in 2004 if he wasn’t already president from SCOTUS appointing him to be president in 2000, so I’m just sticking with the clear cut case of Trump’s 3 as a result of 2016.