[Yeul]

Yes the American system is based on the admirable but false idea of the intelligent citizen. It probably worked a lot better when all the voters were wealthy land owners.

[bitnasty]

Worked better for who?

[throw10920]

...and yet it works better than any other system in existence.

The only people who want to dissolve the US system are those who wish to take advantage of a weaker system for their own benefit.

[yencabulator]

What kind of American exceptionalism is that? There are countries significantly more democratic and happy than USA.

[throw10920]

> What kind of American exceptionalism is that?

This is emotional manipulation and not an argument.

> There are countries significantly more democratic and happy than USA.

Red herring. None of those countries are near the size of the USA. Policies and governance systems are not scale-invariant, and there are many naive ideas that sound good on paper (and may work for small groups of people and/or short timescales) but do not stablely scale to 100 million+ people.