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No matter what position one holds on the matter, it's always impressive to witness the multi-layer democracy process in the US. Not many countries in the world

• TMWNN 5y ago
  >The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one. The US works because of the multilayer democracy process. The combination of federalism and separation of powers in the US is slow, by design. It provides multiple layers of protection against bad ideas. It allows for the governance of a continent-sized country composed of 50 semi-sovereign entities, each acting as mini laboratories for good ideas that can spread elsewhere and to Washington DC.
  • sneak 5y ago
    Many other places work better without this system, so I'm not sure your conclusion supports your premise.
    • TMWNN 5y ago
      Feel free to name the country with more than 100 million people, a continent-sized geography, and a multitude of ethnicities that works "better" than the US. Heck, raise the minimum population to 130 million and use that as the sole criterion. To put another way, every one of the countries with a GDP per capita (PPP-adjusted) (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...>) higher than the US has a population smaller than that of Los Angeles County.
• stevenjohns 5y ago
  > The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one. In many cases it definitely has strong democracy baked into it, much more than the faux-democracy presented in almost every other country in the world. But I wouldn't call it "working." The US has significant, deep-rooted problems from housing to safety -- and US foreign policy, even towards US citizens, is rotten to the core.
• Barrin92 5y ago
  It's a working one because Amazon kept packages coming to your door during the pandemic and the government accelerated the development of vaccines with Warp Speed and because scientists did their job, not because school teachers and governors block each other over minuscule nonsense. The US works despite it's multi-layer democracy, not because of it. All the parts that work aren't democratic.
  • bruiseralmighty 5y ago
    This is quite correct. All of the parts of the United States that actually work are absolute monarchies.
    • danielrpa 5y ago
      But you are not required to be under the full rule of the "kings" and "queens". I don't have much problem doing business with a "monarchy" if you want to call it this way. The problem is when all these "monarchies" are reporting to an ultimate absolute ruler you can't escape...
      • bruiseralmighty 5y ago
        Yes. You're a bit vague in what you mean here, but I will assume that you mean a private monopoly like Google or the Coke-Pepsi duopoly. I don't necessarily disagree with your take, but I take the same concept and run it one step further up the chain as an indictment of government as it is practiced today. For example, we gave the responsibility of arbitrating disputes in a just way to a single monopolistic entity and then become surprised when this entity provides less justice (harsher sentences for drug crimes, racial/gender bias, etc.) for a higher cost (effectively impossible to represent yourself, lengthy trial periods, arbitration process that take so long and cost so much that 'lawfare' is a common parlance). Monopolies are bad full stop. It is simply harder to replace the governmental kind.
  • kybernetyk 5y ago
    Democracy is a soft form of communism. So no wonder the democratic parts don’t work.
• LatteLazy 5y ago
  It really doesnt sounds like it. Why would countries want endless disputes between different levels of their governments? How does that help anyone!?