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This is how our political system wants us to feel: ineffectual and powerless. Don't bother voting because none of the options are good. The system can't be fixe

• SeoxyS 11y ago
  The USA is not a democracy, it's a representative republic. That's the fundamental difference which means that you can't simply go to the ballot box to fix something. You can go to the ballot box to support people who you believe share your values. Sometimes it works, oftentimes it doesn't. Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the USA will ever become a real democracy, so we have to make the best of the system we currently have.
  • Kinnard 11y ago
    We could create a new system. Why is that never thought to be an option . . . people do do that.
  • dragonwriter 11y ago
    > The USA is not a democracy, it's a representative republic. The US (by Constitutional form) is both a (representative) democracy and a (federal, and democratic) republic. > Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the USA will ever become a real democracy You seem to be using "real democracy" to mean "direct democracy", buy direct democracy is no more real than representative democracy. (And there's a good case to be made that the problems the US has with being an effective democracy are curable while remaining a representative democracy, and that the problems lie largely in the particular electoral system.)