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how can the United States be a democracy when the “demos” have no say whatsoever in their own governance?They do have a say. How do they not?
(But keep in mind that 89% of them would disagree with your politics.)
>Where that government puts up roadblock after roadblock protecting itself from the influence of any but the obscenely wealthy?
Compared to where, actual oligarchies like Russia? Your metrics are uncalibrated af.
>I am Gen X. For around five decades now I have voted. It has never affected my life positively.
Congrats, you've apparently been privileged enough to not benefit from Obamacare or the drawdown of the Afghanistan war, or ending "Don't Ask Don't Tell", or the overturn of Trump's transgender service member ban, or the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act, or the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, or the halt on federal executions, or the recent reductions in unemployment, etc.
To you, these things were unnoticeable blips in an uninteresting history because you were never in the unfortunate positions that apply, like someone on welfare, someone in the military, etc.
>Roe v Wade overturned
You got this because all of the people who voted Republican got it (since the Republicans packed the Supreme Court with three conservative judges). So, for them, the system worked. Also, it gets funnier: Roe v Wade, if you read its Wikipedia article, was considered a pretty bad ruling, and some predicted that how poor it was opened the door for overturn later. Meanwhile, in the decades that the Supreme Court let it languish, like a hazardously-perched kludge giving women everywhere abortion rights, Democrats failed to vote for actual legislation protecting abortion rights as they should have.
That's why "you got" Roe v Wade overturned.
On the plus side, a strong majority of Americans support abortion, so it shouldn't be difficult to vote for legislation. The only thing that could mess that up is silly, entitled, nihilist attitudes like yours.
>But hey, we can get rid of the filibuster to raise the debt ceiling. Just not to investigate cops for being Nazis.
Unhinged.