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George Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe he should've helped design a political system that doesn't inevitably lead to a two party system.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Fun fact. George Washington died of bloodletting, despite the practice being largely relegated to the dustbin of history centuries beforehand.

The man was not particularly forward thinking.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Of all of his failings, I don't think you can really blame that one on him. His time had to balance an alliance of states that had really wanted to be a confederacy with reestablishing (small r) republicanism for the first meaningful time beyond the city-state level in two thousand years.

There's going to be some misses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Hmm, but who should we blame then? Our two headed oligarchy is nearly the worst possible attempt at a democracy amongst the developed world and yet it was designed to be as difficult as possible to improve or replace.

Of all the problems the US has, our lack of a functioning democracy is by the most frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does the small r go on reestablishing or republican 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It's a small r because they didn't want to share freedom with the hard r