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    481 day ago

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

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      1017 hours 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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        31 day ago

        Does the small r go on reestablishing or republican 🤔