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This is a huge misconception. We are NOT a democracy, but a Representative Republic.
In a Direct Democracy, EVERY person votes on EVERY issue. That would be too time-consuming and nothing would ever get done.
In a Representative Republican, we vote for REPRESENTATIVES (aka people in the House, Senate and Presidency) to deal with issues at hand. In this mode of government, once someone is in office, THEY decide what they will vote for, with the only fear being not being reelected again. During the term they won, there is nothing stopping this representative from voting how they choose.
If you pay close attention to the wording of the Constitution, it says Republic, not democracy.
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Its not 100% democracy as the citizens don't vote directly for a party, with all the weird stuff going on with voting districts and the democratic and republican party choosing their candidates.
Also if you only got 2 choices basically, the question is if its really a choice.
And you also got the weird thing where you actively have to register to vote, which excludes basically a huge portion of the citizens from voting. As well as different states allow different documents when going to vote. So there is another layer of selection happening.We are suppose to be a Federation of 50 Constitutional republics which have democratic tradition some of whom have democratic traditions.
All of them are united under a Federal Constitutional union.
That Federal organization is very much not democratic holding no direct elections at all and like the states that formed it was generally created to be very much against the idea of democracy. Seeing the mob as dangerous to the right of the people as a monarchy.
Instead both are Constitutional republics which is limited governments.Depends what you mean by democracy, there isn't a true democracy anywhere really. The same is true for most political stances no real place ever actually upholds these keywords despite what they claim. So getting into the semantics no.
But leaving the semantics and saying yeah they do basically vote for things and have a lot more personal agency sure.
The thing is a lot of average folk are okay with voting for bad presidents so even though it's bad options who's only there cause rich and old with nothing better to do, the people voted so that's that. Democracy in action lol.first it is a republic. the whole fuss these days is: democrats trying to do an association trick so people won't associate republican party with republic.
*tecnicly democracy means "demo-" public "cracy" rule" so u. s. has a congress and is also a democracy too.
the spirit of democracy like free speech we lost.
other people decided which words you are allowed to say not only on fascist facebook and twitter but even in speech. so we lost our democracy in the name of "racism and phobia" bullying.No. much like most western first world country, the USA have an inderect oligarchy with a system where the democratically voted representants who are supposed to "represent" the people they got voted by actually represent whoever they are paid by most.
i don't see any of the western "democracies" having a good system that prevents the representants from just making decisions in favor of the highest paying lobbyist. so i don't think that any of these countries actually would qualify as a "democracy", cause "democracy" means government by the people for the people. the people have no say at all in the policy part of politics. and therefore the system isn't democratic.
For the most part though it's a "Republic" hence the certain votes that are not 50/50 or more and the electoral college.
Democracy is inherently flawed though. It's on the basis that we are equal and in intelligence and understanding or just merit itself, we are far from equal. There is also the tyranny of the majority which is very real, the mob mentality has been prominent in the US especially as of late.
Before someone gets angry about me saying we are not equal, does Napoleon Bonaparte have any kind of scale where he is equal to let's say Honey Boo Boo?
No! The U. S. has never been a democracy, it is a "Representative Constitutional Republic".
It was set-up that way by our founding father’s so as to avoid what they called “The tyranny of the majority” otherwise know as “mob rule”!
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The United States has a Democratic Republic form of government, where people vote for representatives in government. It's a form of democracy.
YouTube personality Feli from Germany explains it well in her video...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dfkQ4pa3qr8It's interesting that it takes a foreigner to explain government to Americans. 🤔
I don't consider it a democracy, but my criteria for a democracy is so strict most countries don't conform to that. Because my criteria is that society has a way to vote on policy. In the US you can vote on one of two viable party's neither of which does what the people actually want.
Nope. It was set up as a representative-style republic, not a democracy.
But the representative government was usurped by greed and our representatives work for monied interests like billionaires, corporations, industries, the Israel lobby, and the global banking establishment. American citizens, themselves, have no representation.
Plus there is a shadow government that is not answerable to the constitutional government.Nah. It has a bunch of corporations whose boards of directors control things... and a token government bankrolled by the corporations who make the laws that allow said corporations to keep functioning at the expense of the public.
i. e. It is a capitalist hell-hole. Even moreso than most other western countries.let's see we have a useless government we have millions of immigrants other countries emptied out their jails women get raped and killed like never before we have chaos
I honestly have no idea Kellz, I’m living above the boarder and watching our own shit show unfold.
It's supposed to be a republic, not a democracy.
A democracy ends up with a dictatorship where the elected leader ceases to represent the majority and inevitably degenerates into a society run by a minority elite...We are considered a Democratic Republic. We vote for the people who represent us then create / vote for the laws of the land.
I'm a pure democracy we would vote for everything ourselves.
It’s a democratic republic. Meaning we “elect” the officials and they represent their own interest and say it’s what the people want. When they are working for corporations and such. We are the modern day Roman Empire, on a different scale and we will probably fall like Rome as well.
No. Capitalization of profits, socialization of expenses by Industrial-military complex isn't democracy.
Only for those who vote for the ''Democrats''.
The others are happier with proclaiming a ''Republic''
(The 'enemy' is everywhere :D ... even where he isn't)
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