"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright."
It hasn't been a democracy for a long time.
It's a corporate kleptocracy, to which one can currently add the adjective kakistocratic.
Probably because the US was the first modern democracy, one that invented itself from first principles. They thought they'd got it right but in fact it was badly flawed, and more modern democracies have greatly improved the idea. There's an implicit cultural arrogance about being the first that makes Americans ignore the dangers. I remember the sense of triumph when Obama won in 2008, as if after the Civil Rights acts and a Black president, the US couldn't regress to the bad old days.
@riggbeck Excellent point well made.
The Electoral College is a slavery era anachronism. What's it even doing in the modern USA?
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