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The larger proportion of the population you require to pander to in order to hold the top office the better off your society will be. At a certain point you have to start delivering good policy instead of catering to special interests. The United States is one of the most dysfunctional democratic nations precisely because of the emphasis on representative democracy and dumb traditions like the electoral college and senate seat allocations, which means even before you factor in party politics you only need to cater to a dedicated minority of voters that are positioned in key states and can ignore everyone else and things like not poo poo policies. It’s a lot easier to bribe a few hundred representatives then it is half the nation. I say the United States is “democratic” but really it’s an oligarchy and the gap between the public’s preferences and actual law is comparable to many dictatorships.
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Why would any political system function perfectly when the richest 1% own half the global wealth and have free reign to manipulate outcomes with that wealth?
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