American democracy:
- weight votes to favor some over others
- treat fictional entities as people
- let the rich buy elections
- make it harder for some to vote than others
- hold elections on workdays
- invite foreign powers to interfere
- look for excuses to deregister voters
- sabotage the delivery mechanism for absentee votes
- make SOME people stand in long lines during a global pandemic
- let your leader preemptively question the results in case he doesn& #39;t win
- let legislators from his party sabotage his rivals by running corrupt investigations
- retaliate against whistleblowers & witnesses who expose the leader& #39;s wrongdoing
- let the leader abuse his power for personal profit
- let the leader turn a blind eye to your nation& #39;s enemy paying bounties for the killing of your soldiers so that the enemy will help him win
- create a system where unknown sources of funding can pay unlimited sums for advertising to attack a candidate& #39;s rival
- create a hyper partisan government agency to police elections, and deadlock it with partisans, so it remains impotent
- use outdated technology that can be hacked, avoid paper records, so the hack can never been undone
- limit yourself to only two parties so that, when one is hijacked by extreme radicals, you& #39;ll still have the loyalty of those who can& #39;t bring themselves to vote for the other
- let your leader keep conflicting financial interests so the opportunities for profiteering will keep him interested in serving your party& #39;s extremist agenda
- let him have contracts with the govt he leads, just for kicks
- garner votes by inflaming the passions of a racist mob
- spread rumors about voter fraud, even though you know there is no evidence widespread voter fraud has ever existed or could succeed
- tell everyone in the world that your system is the one pure democracy because arrogance goes a long way
- if all else fails, bomb some country
Yeehaw!
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