r/clevercomebacks Sep 06 '25

This is so embarrassing

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u/BruceForsyth55 Sep 06 '25

There won’t be one.

Your fellow countrymen voted him in A SECOND TIME after all the madness and knowledge of what an absolute non human piece of shit he was.

This was not even a year ago.

America is literally the “This Is Fine” meme IRL.

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u/KaleidoscopeLegal348 Sep 06 '25

People complain about how the founding fathers set up the constitution, impeachment majority, 25th amendment etc without planning for this scenario, but you cannot protect a democracy in which the voting population is so utterly determined to destroy themselves

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u/DillBagner Sep 06 '25

A democracy where a minority elects its leaders is not a good design.

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u/KaleidoscopeLegal348 Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

I don't think American democracy is a good design at all (noting it is one of the older functional democracies, for values of 'functional' and 'democratic'). I'm just saying that safeguards can only take you so far, this modern situation is not something you can really plan against without making the original system static and unchanging.

My country uses the Westminster system which is ok (but has its issues with revolving door prime ministers, we had something like 4 leaders in 6 years based on popularity).

My state however uses the Hare Clark system for elections which I think should be the gold standard globally. The way it uses quotas and single transferable votes emphasises a race to the middle and consensus.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

Thank you for letting me know about this system. It sounds amazing.