No matter who wins, the majority of Americans will be unhappy.
This isn’t democracy
That is exactly democracy. There will always be some significant fraction of voters who will be dissatisfied with the results. I would be more worried if the winning candidate had overwhelming support. Look at how much Reagan won by and how badly he fucked everything up. As long as voters are tussling over varied issues and considering their voting options then democracy is working.
And I’m still convinced the DNC is in some kind of Brewster’s Millions scenario where they’re trying as hard as possible to lose the election.
It’s the only way any of Biden’s actions make sense.
Nonsense. The Democratic party has never had to put any particular effort into snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they just do it.
That is exactly democracy. There will always be some significant fraction of voters who will be dissatisfied with the results. I would be more worried if the winning candidate had overwhelming support. Look at how much Reagan won by and how badly he fucked everything up. As long as voters are tussling over varied issues and considering their voting options then democracy is working.
Nonsense. The Democratic party has never had to put any particular effort into snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they just do it.
That’s very different than only 40% being happy if either candidate is president…
That’s not a “significant faction”…
That’s a sizable majority.
Close to 2/3s of the country…
No it’s not democracy. It’s a ban implementation of democracy. Just like a bad implementation of communism doesn’t work.
Then the only thing that would improve it would be a better implementation of democracy. Not a slide backwards into neofascism.
Where every vote counts, and everyone votes on everything, and popular vote wins. Ranked voting for 3+ options would be good too.
I think what we need to start with is an objective evaluation of how good our democracy is compared to other countries. Something like this:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country
This rank would use object criteria e.g.
Is every vote for every office weighted equally?
Does the system disfavor more than 2 parties?
How easy is it to vote?
Are voting districts determined objectively?