> you were claiming that a generalization doesn't hold for specific cases... which will never invalidate a generalization, because a generalization works "in ge

> you were claiming that a generalization doesn't hold for specific cases... which will never invalidate a generalization, because a generalization works "in general" not for specific cases :) Very true > you only get to vote for the president?! We vote for the president, senate, congress, and local representatives. We rarely vote for individual issues (like say Brexit) on a national level, those are usually decided for us. > do you live in a democracy where you can vote to get things changed? or perhaps people in america just like it that way. maybe it is naive, but other democratic countries are moving ahead with more progressive ideas America is a Constitutional Republic not a true democracy. We don't even get one vote per person. Our votes are broken up into statistical areas that are winner take all. And I can assure you that many Americans don't like it that way but it is very difficult to change in a two party system. Which is why many people (millennials more than any other group) are pushing to end the 2 party system.