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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Come on now. If it isn't clearly tampered elections from foreign sources, to a bizarre electoral system where the person with the most votes lost the election, to a system designed to benefit the rich in an ever-increasing fashion, to a system which now has more similarities to a broken class paradigm and crumbling institutions... I think you know what I am getting at.

Two seconds onto wikipedia, under the word "democracy"... let's see:

"According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens.[4]"

-Political system through free and fair elections? Nope.
-Active participation of people, as citizens in politics and civic life? Debateable, but fine I'll give them this one.
-Protection of human rights of all citizens? Nope.
-Rule of law, in which laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens? Clearly not.

The US is the most hypocritical nation on Earth. They claim they're capitalists, then they bail out GM. They claim their the land of the free, they're not. They claim to have human rights, and the violate that. They claim to be above corruption and bribery, and yet hundreds of thousands are still murdered with gun violence when the majority of people want gun restrictions. Can't get done.

It's broken, and it sure as #### isn't "democratic"- at least a functioning one based on what the founding fathers envisioned.

I don't know about all that, the founding fathers envisioned a democracy where wealthy white landowning males selected the government. I think the democracy they envisioned is functioning quite well.