| > The USA is a democracy. I'm not sure it is as black and white as you suggest. If you were to create a time machine and bring an ancient Athenian to the modern day US, the Athenian would not recognize the US system of government as, democracy. With the exception of jury trials and referendums, the demos do not directly engage in governance. The US doesn't even allow the majority of the population to select those who perform the actual governing. E.g., a person from Wyoming has much more representation in the Senate than a person from California. And, for the president, the population votes, but the winner of this election is not the one who got the most votes from the population, it is the one with the most electoral college votes. Again, the Wyoming voter gets more representation with one elector per less than 200K Wyoming residents, and only one elector for over 700K California residents. It is how the US got Bush "W" and Trump even though they both lost the vote of the demos. With all the money in elections, even if there were majority representation, the US would still have moneyed interests dominating politics. Some argue that the US is an oligarchy: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi... |