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In every representative democracy you elect the lesser evil. That is part of the point of democracy, you compromise with everybody else. In my opinion "not bomb
by allendoerfer 10y ago
In every representative democracy you elect the lesser evil. That is part of the point of democracy, you compromise with everybody else. In my opinion "not bombing people", "not building a wall around the country" and similar stuff should be pretty high on everybody's wishlist for a new president. Apparently in America 41% of the voting population has a very different wishlist and/or is ignorant to or does not know the things candidates actually say.
I get that Americas election system is broken and I also get that "not Clinton" or for some people "not a woman" is on their wishlist. It just puzzles me that America, the country of "the [letter]-word", does not have a blacklist of phrases a candidate simply cannot say engrained deep enough into society.
- ekianjo 10y agoThis has nothing to do with democracy. This is what you get when you have a majority based voting system with centralized power structure. Democracy in its origin was about the separation of powers and the involvment of citizens in governance.
- allendoerfer 10y agoI intentionally said representative democracy. I personally think it is a good model. Council and referendum based democracies have been tried, I think as the main model, they do not work. And even with them, compromising is the point of the Western democracy, its definition almost always includes human rights and protection of minorities.