Representative democracy isn’t about voting “for this shit”, it is about electing a king who then do whatever he pleases. And it isn’t the USA problem, it is the “representative democracy” problem. It is just happen that you have a remarkably stupid king at the moment.
But they all are. That is the very essence of the “representative” democracy. You’re totally correct saying about “single elected individual” but having 200 “single elected individuals” doesn’t change much – they still do whatever they want. Your job is limited to throwing a bulletin in the vote box. After that, you are completely out of control, and all you can do is to wait until the next elections or make a revolution.
In the US system of government, the President’s power is supposed to be checked by Congress and the Supreme Court. In other words, you’re not giving supreme executive power to just one person. Unfortunately since Republicans practically always do what Trump wants, we’ve lost that check.
Representative democracy isn’t about voting “for this shit”, it is about electing a king who then do whatever he pleases. And it isn’t the USA problem, it is the “representative democracy” problem. It is just happen that you have a remarkably stupid king at the moment.
Don’t confuse your rotten kleptocracy with how representative democracy works in civilised countries.
Accurate but a bit mean/aggressive.
Do I upvote or downvote?
No, be mean to dumb people
Cruel* people. One is a transient condition. The other, a choice.
Also be sure to stop once they stop, otherwise you become the bully yourself. Don’t ask me how I know.
Not all representative democracies have a single elected individual with supreme power. The US isn’t meant to either.
Eh… Both who? Isn’t meant for what? Rephrase please…
*not all
But they all are. That is the very essence of the “representative” democracy. You’re totally correct saying about “single elected individual” but having 200 “single elected individuals” doesn’t change much – they still do whatever they want. Your job is limited to throwing a bulletin in the vote box. After that, you are completely out of control, and all you can do is to wait until the next elections or make a revolution.
That is blatantly false. You have just gotten used to the corruption in your shithole country.
You seem to post a lot of incorrect information.
In the US system of government, the President’s power is supposed to be checked by Congress and the Supreme Court. In other words, you’re not giving supreme executive power to just one person. Unfortunately since Republicans practically always do what Trump wants, we’ve lost that check.
1 person or 200 persons – it doesn’t matter much. It wasn’t the point. The point is that those persons are completely safe to ignore the citizens.