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IMO the primary issue is that the US still has people on it. In a democracy it should be the values of the country that should be represented not individuals.
by sschueller 2y ago
IMO the primary issue is that the US still has people on it.
In a democracy it should be the values of the country that should be represented not individuals.
Everyone from left to right should be able to agree on what the US stands for. How one gets there is what people argue about.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> the primary issue is that the US still has people on it This is hardly unique. > In a democracy it should be the values of the country that should be represented not individuals The world's oldest (Britain, Iceland) and largest (India, America) democracies have people on their currencies. Democracies are a human institution. It's dangerous to forget that.
- bmitc 2y agoAnd people seem to forget that the U.S. is not a pure democracy. It's a democratic republic that is becoming more and more republic-like than democratic-like.
- kasey_junk 2y agoMore and more compared to when? Since the founding we’ve changed to direct elections in the senate. Many states have passed faithless elector laws for the electoral college and 17 states (or 209 electoral votes) have passed the national popular vote law.
- bmitc 2y agoThe U.S. is controlled by an ever shrinking collection of people and institutions, namely corporations and extremist groups. That's how it's more and more republic-like. Sure, you could even bring a national voting system, but it wouldn't make it any less of a republic because of the outsized influence that the sub one percent of people have.
- encomiast 2y agoIt’s a feature (or bug)of US democracy that one of its primary values, its reason for existing, is to support individuals and their freedom. Individuals are the values.