America is not even a representative democracy and has not been one for a very long time.
PS: I can point to similar posts under the Obama presidency if you think this is about who is in office. America like China holds elections, but is not a democracy.
The idea is, if you're rich enough you can lobby for what you want. Functionally this is bribery with some extra steps.
I would refer to the US as either a pendulum swing of administrations that attempt to cancel each other out at best and inverse totalitarianism[0] at worst. But I certainly wouldn't hold it up as the pinnacle of democracy.
There is next to no correlation between the will of the people and the chance of their preferred policy being enacted.
There's a very strong correlation between the will of the elites and their preferred policy being enacted.
The US is only nominally a democracy, it is functionally an oligarchy.
Thank goodness too! We are a Constitutional Republic. A pure democracy only works when the majority is moral.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
To bad people have become political cheerleaders that care more about their party and ego then the country or holding their own party accountable.
Republican and Democrat political cheerleaders is a big reason we have lost our gov't along with people being to stupid to focus on the REAL issue versus distractions such as healthcare,welfare ,taxes,racism,sexism,sexuality,religion,heck even net neutrality.
The only issue we should be talking about is 1. term limits in congress. 2. Closing revolving doors. 3. Reforming lobbying 4. Reforming fund raising. 5. Real transparency.
you cant expect a bunch of people with conflict of interest to do the right thing for anyone but themselves.
That's not to say the GP was a good comment, but responding by making the thread more toxic is exactly the wrong thing to do.
We occasionally have instances of pure democracy through referendums.
""" noun
- a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
- a state governed by a democracy.
- control of an organization or group by the majority of its members. """
The term you're thinking of is "direct democracy".
Google's definition in this case isn't out of sync with common usage or with any other dictionary that I'm aware of. Think for a second about point you're trying to make exactly, because it sounds to me like a vague soup of paranoid anti-corporate gibberish.