The US is a case where it's an obvious lack of democracy (2 senators per state, the electoral college) to blame so it's a strange example of democracy not scali

The US is a case where it's an obvious lack of democracy (2 senators per state, the electoral college) to blame so it's a strange example of democracy not scaling well. Americans overall poll as very reasonable people, it's just not reflected in their lawmaking. Note there is a solid 30% who seem to choose the worst possible option in polls but I'd argue that is result of the lack of democracy and they've been trained into that over decades.