Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
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Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#2Newsweek, a heavily biased media website whose corporation was bought by a millionaire stereo mogul for just exactly $1.00 as a birthday gift for his wife, a former Democratic congresswoman, so she can use it as a yellow journalistic web rag. #caring
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#3Newsweek, a heavily biased media website whose corporation was bought by a millionaire stereo mogul for just exactly $1.00 as a birthday gift for his wife, a former Democratic congresswoman, so she can use it as a yellow journalistic web rag. #caring
Careful, even fox news is right sometimes.
I'm a brit, we're not doing much better than the US. But no one really takes the US seriously as a democracy.
Partly for the reason you yourself give: propoganda and fake news. Partly because the US system is just such a mess (the senate has so much power and seems designed to be antidemocratic for a start). Trump and Jan 6th are just the icing on the cake.
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#4That is good, as we are a model of good Federalist Republic.
The continued attempts to make the U.S. a national democracy is an ongoing problem, we need and should revert many of the "democratic" elements that have been put into our system, such as repealing the 17th amendment, we should more limit the power and scope of the federal government reversing bad Supreme Court Rulings such as Wickard v filburn which expended the power of the federal government far beyond what is should be, we should also expand the size of the House (using the Wyoming Rule) there by limiting the power of any one representative person. We should also make the House a 4 year term Elected with a 2 year offset of the president.
And Ofcourse we should be using Instant Runoff / Ranked Choice voting not First past the post.
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#5Newsweek, a heavily biased media website whose corporation was bought by a millionaire stereo mogul for just exactly $1.00 as a birthday gift for his wife, a former Democratic congresswoman, so she can use it as a yellow journalistic web rag. #caring
Data/Research is from Pew Research:
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image...
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#6Newsweek, a heavily biased media website whose corporation was bought by a millionaire stereo mogul for just exactly $1.00 as a birthday gift for his wife, a former Democratic congresswoman, so she can use it as a yellow journalistic web rag. #caring
The research wasn't by Newsweek, it was by the Pew Research Center. Newsweek is just reporting it.
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#7Newsweek, a heavily biased media website whose corporation was bought by a millionaire stereo mogul for just exactly $1.00 as a birthday gift for his wife, a former Democratic congresswoman, so she can use it as a yellow journalistic web rag. #caring
Newsweek has an been an independent publication since 2018.
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#8Newsweek, a heavily biased media website whose corporation was bought by a millionaire stereo mogul for just exactly $1.00 as a birthday gift for his wife, a former Democratic congresswoman, so she can use it as a yellow journalistic web rag. #caring
Careful, even fox news is right sometimes. I'm a brit, we're not doing much better than the US. But no one really takes the US seriously as a democracy. Partly for the reason you yourself give: propoganda and fake news. Partly because the US system is just such a mess (the senate has so much power and seems designed to be antidemocratic for a start). Trump and Jan 6th are just the icing on the cake.
>>> (the senate has so much power and seems designed to be antidemocratic for a start).
That is because it is.... and that is a GOOD thing
The Senate is designed to be the State's (i.e the state governments) representative in the federal government, We are a union of 50 independent states, people seem to forget that. it is the United *States* of America, The House of Representatives is the People i.e the citizens chamber, and the Senate is the States chamber of government
it was not until 1913 that Senators were elected by voters, before then State legislators appointed the Senators and IMO we should return to that model
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#9I felt this way for a long time, so I put my money where my mouth is and I left. I'm not sure if it will take 10, 20, or 30 years (sometimes it feels like even less!) but it's so hard to look at the American superstructure and see a system that is capable of self-repair or dealing with new problems.
Re: Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
#10That is good, as we are a model of good Federalist Republic. The continued attempts to make the U.S. a national democracy is an ongoing problem, we need and should revert many of the "democratic" elements that have been put into our system, such as repealing the 17th amendment, we should more limit the power and scope of the federal government reversing bad Supreme Court Rulings such as Wickard v filburn which expend…
You're completely missing the point here and the federalist republic argument has always been a terrible one to defend this complete deafness when people criticize the US' democracy. It's like a dictatorship saying they're simply a one party system.