I am not really interested in becoming an IT guy.
I just wanted to get away from reddit, but i am starting to think Lemmy is both a little too complicated, and lacks the amount of users that made reddit interesting.
There are only 160mil valid passports in America right now.
You are right though that you can be a registrerede voter with no party affiliation, but there are still 50mil eligible voters that haven't registrered.
And do you deny that a lot of Americans have a hard time getting off of work to go vote? That making election day a national holiday would not easily make a lot more people participate in the countrys democracy?
If you haven't already, you should check out the reporters previous work.
The Red Chapel is about him and two danish-korean comedians going to North Korea. It is pretty fucking funny, but he never really found the smoking gun he was looking for.
Then he went on to make The Mole, which a lady from MI5 called the most impressive private investigative work she ever saw. It is also about infiltrating North Korea.
And without spoiling, the title of the first episode of The Mole is "Methamfetamine and missiles". It is a must watch.
He also made one called The Ambassador where he infiltrates the government of some African country, i haven't seen it. But it should be just as good.
It is one version of authoritarianism, yes.