America's flawed democracy: the five key areas where it is failing

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On 7 November the United States pulled back from the brink of re-electing a president who has repeatedly shown disdain for democratic norms and institutions. Donald Trump has fused his own business interests with the White House, dubbed the media “enemies of the people”, embraced foreign strongmen, sidelined science and politicized the justice department, falsely cast doubt on the electoral process and is currently distinguishing himself as the first sitting president since 1800 to frustrate a peaceful transition of power.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/16/america-flawed-democracy-five-key-areas
 
1. The electoral college

The US is recovering from a severe bout of stress, caused by nerve-shattering waiting for the swing states to be called. The 2020 presidential election will go down in people’s memories as unbearably close.

It wasn’t close at all.
 
2. Voter suppression

Huge turnout in the 2020 election was all the more impressive given barriers to voting. “We have seen this cycle an effort by the Republican party to make it harder, wherever possible, to vote – especially for black and minority populations,” Bassin said.

He added: “I don’t know of another advanced democracy in the world where one of the two major political parties has invested in voter suppression as a core strategy.”
 
3. The Senate

That McConnell is likely to remain in control of the Senate is in itself a product of America’s flawed democracy. The composition of the chamber, with two senators assigned to each state no matter what its population, also has its roots in the country’s dark past.

“The structure of the Senate is an outdated, racist, Jim Crow relic meant to enshrine white landowner power in our government, by prioritizing land over people,” said Deirdre Schifeling, campaign director of the progressive coalition Democracy For All 2021. “That disparity has only grown more magnified as our population has grown and it’s really unsustainable.”
 
72 million Trump boot lickers proved they do not believe in Democracy, democratic norms, free and fair elections.

They cannot even accept they lost an election in both a popular vote and electoral college blowout.


51 percent of the American electorate prevent us from becoming a North American version of a Putin criminal oligarchy.
 
Cypress said:
72 million Trump boot lickers proved they do not believe in Democracy, democratic norms, free and fair elections.

They cannot even accept they lost an election in both a popular vote and electoral college blowout.


51 percent of the American electorate prevent us from becoming a North American version of a Putin criminal oligarchy.
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They do not believe in democracy.

They love to argue we are a republic and not a democracy, but the genuinely do not want our nation to be a democracy.
 
4. Judges

“This is going to be Trump’s long-term legacy,” Brown said. “We are certainly going to feel it down the line as these rightwing judges, appointed to lifetime positions, obstruct us as we pull out all the stops to provide relief to our folks.”
 
5. Redistricting

Failure to take control in Texas and elsewhere hands Republicans the gift of controlling the 10-year redistricting process in which electoral boundaries are drawn. As was seen in the last round in 2010, after the Tea Party upheaval swept Republicans to power in several states, they proved themselves to be devastatingly effective at drawing those lines in their own favor – gerrymandering.
 
votebiden said:
1. The electoral college
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Distribution of Electoral Votes
Allocation among the States
Electoral votes are allocated among the States based on the Census. Every State is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of senators and representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its Congressional districts.
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-...d among,number of its Congressional districts.

Actually the Electoral College is unfair in another aspect.
The census takes into consideration a state's population that includes illegal immigrants and permanent residents - non citizens. The number of House of Representatives a state is allocated is also determined by the census which includes non-citizens. This is just flat out wrong.
Why should non-citizens be given a voice in our govt.?
California is the prime example. The number of electoral college votes they get is highly inflated due to the fact they outright encourage illegal immigrants.
 
anonymoose said:
Distribution of Electoral Votes
Allocation among the States
Electoral votes are allocated among the States based on the Census. Every State is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of senators and representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its Congressional districts.
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-...d among,number of its Congressional districts.

Actually the Electoral College is unfair in another aspect.
The census takes into consideration a state's population that includes illegal immigrants and permanent residents - non citizens. The number of House of Representatives a state is allocated is also determined by the census which includes non-citizens. This is just flat out wrong.
California is the prime example. The number of electoral college votes they get is highly inflated due to the fact they outright encourage illegal immigrants.
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We are the United States. Not 50 states.
 
Take hope my friends



80% of Americans accept the results


We force fox to tell the facts and in no time people won’t believe the Republican lies

The remaining Koch brother my even help it happen
 
Most trumps voters can’t define a republic let alone a democracy


It’s why fox lies in place of news works on them
 
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