• Daft_ish@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorBanned from community
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    2 years ago

    Washington was not a dictator, and decidedly so?

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      2 years ago

      referring to FPTP voting not the act of voting at all.

      Also, he was a slave owner and personally marched against dissatisfied working class americans when they balked at new liquor taxes. He might have been elected but he had some pretty authoritarian streaks in him.

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        Sorry, I’m not a Washington expert and made the assumption that Washington’s feeling about a two party system was not shared by all.