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This is how America was conceived as well. Democracy was not meant to be universal and there were checks placed even on the limited portion of society who could
by tyre 5y ago
This is how America was conceived as well. Democracy was not meant to be universal and there were checks placed even on the limited portion of society who could vote.
The electoral college, for example, is set up this way. The idea is that electors—who were not democratically elected—could block a populist candidate.
As we saw in 2016, this check failed.
- cryptonector 5y agoNot the same. Lenin believed in a democracy of not more than 8 or so people. The bolsheviks won the Soviet elections and Lenin still staged a coup. The American Constitution is an indirect democracy. Direct at the local level, indirect at the Federal level (though eventually by statute and amendment it became direct for Congress). > As we saw in 2016, this check failed. Nonsense. That "failure mode" was designed for. It has happened a few times. Working as expected.
- drdeca 5y agoHuh? Are electors not, y’know, technically who one is voting between when one votes for president? If you mean “what electors are on the ballot” isn’t democratically decided, but rather, is determined by the parties, then yeah I guess that’s true?