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We Americans like to claim we live in a republic and not a democracy, but we live in a broken republic too.

• tracker1 9y ago
  The problem is, at this point the "representation" is far too removed from the governed... Very few people "know" their representatives (local, state and federal alike). And the public image is very manipulated. Unfortunately, people no longer vote for who they feel is a better person, but who is in their party and has a better smile and message. In the internet age, it's almost worse with the sheer amount of disinformation which cannot be contained or offset in both directions, for the better or the worse of a given candidate. It's disillusioning and outright sad. That doesn't even account for external pressures and interests.