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> The United States is a democracy, but more specifically, a representative democracy. As your following explanation makes clear, it's actually an unrepresenta
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> The United States is a democracy, but more specifically, a representative democracy.
As your following explanation makes clear, it's actually an unrepresentative democracy.
- jb1991 1y agoThere are very few countries in the world that are not a representative democracy. Switzerland is a well-known example of a country where citizens directly vote on most legislation, but in most other countries, you have a parliament, congress, etc that represents the people.
- BrenBarn 1y agoThat doesn't really have anything to do with the ways in which the US is an unrepresentative democracy.
- DaSHacka 1y agoNo, but it does with singling them out in particular.
- stOneskull 1y agounfortunately, they represent a party before representing the people