A very interesting and insightful take from a foreign journalist on the outside looking in.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 hours ago

    We define successful collective representation as Congress either passing a popular bill or defeating an unpopular one. By this metric, 55% of these 103 issues were collective representational successes.

    I don’t think you read, or maybe understood what this was about and the metrics used, but that right there disproves your assertion. This is simply about the comparison of public opinion polling on specific bills. 45% was the other side.

    This is policy, not democracy. Democracy is a wider swathe of things where policy is one portion. Your assertion that we’ve never lived in. Democracy because of this is faulty.

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      9 hours ago

      Well at least you’ve shifted your argument from ad hominem to the fallacy of incomplete information. Bravo!