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		TeMPOraL on Nov 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec Replace "bureaucracy" with "democracy" and you'll see the number one reason why politics in US and Europe sucks so much.

hga on Nov 13, 2014 [–]

By "democracy" you mean "republic", and it's long been known, and was remarked upon by our Founders, that they only work with a moral people. Which we are clearly no longer. We're steadily transitioning into other forms like empire and oligarchy because of that.

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