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minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·edit-21 year agoThe New Deal, the Civil Rights Act, Women’s Lib, cessation of hostility in Vietnam, the Clean Water Act, the ADA, Lol.
minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoNone of those were the result of democracy.
minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoWhy did they pass them? You seem to have not studied any history at all.
minus-squareLauchs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agoThere were mass movements that translated to electoral victory… In other words, democracy function led exactly as it should.
minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·edit-21 year agoOh no. They were mass movements that performed illegal actions and threatened more. We the People didn’t cast votes. We demanded what we deserved with a threat of violence.
minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoDemocratic? US exceptionalism.
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoAll of those were accomplished through the electoral system though….
minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoNone of them were accomplished through the electoral system.
The New Deal, the Civil Rights Act, Women’s Lib, cessation of hostility in Vietnam, the Clean Water Act, the ADA, Lol.
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None of those were the result of democracy.
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Why did they pass them? You seem to have not studied any history at all.
There were mass movements that translated to electoral victory… In other words, democracy function led exactly as it should.
Oh no. They were mass movements that performed illegal actions and threatened more. We the People didn’t cast votes. We demanded what we deserved with a threat of violence.
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Democratic?
US exceptionalism.
Hahahahaha. Wrong
All of those were accomplished through the electoral system though….
None of them were accomplished through the electoral system.