David Njoku@davidnjoku@mastodon.world
@RolloTreadway@beige.party I think you're right; every country can submit to autocracy.
The reason why I thought America might be close to immune is that their system, as I understand it, was built to oppose it. They have a Senate to counteract the President and a Supreme Court to provide a balance to both.
RolloTreadway@RolloTreadway@beige.party
@davidnjoku@mastodon.world But there are two fatal flaws: that the President gets to choose his own judges to serve for a lifetime (a truly terrible system), and that a disproportionate electoral system with only two parties means that a bare majority in the senate can be achieved with very little support.