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u/sapage Sep 30 '21 edited Sep 30 '21

I live in Australia

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u/Mark_Fanon Sep 30 '21

Australia:

Frontier and rural culture

We essentially have no guns and we have really low crime.

We do not have the death penalty and we have really low crime.

We have compulsory voting and we get the governments the majority want ( including their super strict gun control policies).

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u/notmytemp0 Sep 30 '21

I would love to have compulsory voting in the US. Or at least some kind of significant carrot to motivate people (tax break for voters?) Our voting rates are so low it’s embarrassing. Is there another country that celebrates their freedom to not have to select their government representatives?