The World’s Democracies Ask: Why Can’t America Fix Itself?

BidenPresident said:
Especially in countries that have found ways to strengthen their democratic processes, interviews with scholars, officials and voters revealed alarm that the United States seemed to be doing the opposite and sliding away from its core ideals.
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Which core ideals is it slipping away from?
 
BidenPresident said:
Democracy.
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I'm not sure that was a core ideal but we are certainly more democratic today than at the nation's beginning. It is much easier and more democratic to vote today than when I first started voting.

Obviously January 6 was a big issue but it failed. Some recent voting changes may have been to suppress the vote, but they also failed if you look at increased turnout. 2018 had 50% turnout which was the highest in many years. 50% was good for a presidential election. I don't think you realize how much harder it was to vote 50 years ago and it still was not difficult.
 
Flash said:
I'm not sure that was a core ideal but we are certainly more democratic today than at the nation's beginning. It is much easier and more democratic to vote today than when I first started voting.

Obviously January 6 was a big issue but it failed. Some recent voting changes may have been to suppress the vote, but they also failed if you look at increased turnout. 2018 had 50% turnout which was the highest in many years. 50% was good for a presidential election. I don't think you realize how much harder it was to vote 50 years ago and it still was not difficult.
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I disagree with everything thing you said. As usual.
 
BidenPresident said:
I disagree with everything thing you said. As usual.
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But you never offer any proof of anything I said was wrong. When James Madison wrote the Constitution he specifically sought to avoid majority rule. I doubt if you knew what voting was like 50 years ago compared to how easy it is today.

If I am wrong, give me some evidence to disprove my points. I'm not saying there have not been some negative developments in recent years, but compared to past "core ideals" we are much better off.
 
Flash said:
But you never offer any proof of anything I said was wrong. When James Madison wrote the Constitution he specifically sought to avoid majority rule. I doubt if you knew what voting was like 50 years ago compared to how easy it is today.

If I am wrong, give me some evidence to disprove my points. I'm not saying there have not been some negative developments in recent years, but compared to past "core ideals" we are much better off.
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Democracy is not judged by voting. Democracy is about the distribution of power.
 
we HAVE been trying to fix it since the 2020 fiasco. With any luck we4 should start seeing the fruits of those efforts today. And if we do, it will continue to improve for 2024.

#GoBigRed
 
BidenPresident said:
Democracy is not judged by voting. Democracy is about the distribution of power.
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That is not the definition of democracy; but, our Constitution divided power into as many parts as possible to prevent any group from imposing its will on others (including the majority): separation of powers (branches), federalism, different terms of office, different method of selection, different constituency, checks and balances....

In a direct democracy the people have the power to make the decisions. If a majority want to put all the power in one person that was the democratic decision. If the system prevents the people from making that decision that is why our system is not a democracy but a democratic republic or a constitutional republic that has evolved into a more democratic system.
 
Why the West lost the capacity for regeneration is a hugely important question.

I dont yet have an answer.
 
One way to look at the insanity and death of America is to frame it as societal PTSD/Borderline Personality disorder.....Civil War, WW1, Great Depression, WW2, mutually assured destruction was too much trauma in too short a period.....the country could not absorb all of that in 100 years.
 
BidenPresident said:
Especially in countries that have found ways to strengthen their democratic processes, interviews with scholars, officials and voters revealed alarm that the United States seemed to be doing the opposite and sliding away from its core ideals.

Several critics of America’s direction cited the Jan. 6 riots, a violent rejection of democracy’s insistence on the peaceful transfer of power. Others expressed concern about states’ erecting barriers to voting after the record turnout that resulted from widespread early and absentee voting during the pandemic. A few said they worried that the Supreme Court was falling prey to party politics, like judiciaries in nations struggling to establish independent courts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/world/us-international-democracy.html
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There are currently no democracies anywhere in the world.
 
BidenPresident said:
I studied European history in high school. Did you even graduate from high school? You seem very stupid.
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Oh yeah?
Let see.

* Please describe the treaty that caused WW2.
* Describe the four tribes of England and where each originated.
* Discuss how London solved the cholera epidemic.
* Who was the leader of the French Revolution and what became of him?
* Who invented the vacuum pump and how did he do it?
* Describe how the mounted knight developed, and how the days of the mounted knight ended and why.
* Describe the structure of the Roman Republic, how it ended, and how it dissolved into a dictatorship.
* Describe where the barometer was invented and why.
* Describe the history of the playing card, how it changed in Europe, and why it has the form we see today.

The more you answer these, the more I'll believe you. If you answer none of them, I don't believe you ever learned any European history.
 
Flash said:
That is not the definition of democracy; but, our Constitution divided power into as many parts as possible to prevent any group from imposing its will on others (including the majority): separation of powers (branches), federalism, different terms of office, different method of selection, different constituency, checks and balances....

In a direct democracy the people have the power to make the decisions. If a majority want to put all the power in one person that was the democratic decision. If the system prevents the people from making that decision that is why our system is not a democracy but a democratic republic or a constitutional republic that has evolved into a more democratic system.
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Democracies have no constitution and no representatives. There is no such thing as 'direct' democracy. There is no such thing as a 'democratic republic'.
 
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