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Some people: "The US is losing its status as a beacon of democracy" ... we didn't get the Voting Rights Act until 1964 and a significant part of the country has been fighting, now successfully, to overturn that since. It's always been very bad at democracy. @earlymodjustice/1495053634777800706
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(the answer being racism and sexism and the general feeling that people other than landed white men still don't deserve a say in things)