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Is there a lore reason why American elections are so convoluted? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are they stupid?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago

The founding fathers were afraid of the "tyranny of the masses" so they intentionally designed every step of the US government to be as conservative and undemocratic as possible. It is less stupid and more malice which drove our cluster fuck today.