a huge emphasis on giving the people the power to write their own collective destiny.
A functional democracy is not a dictatorship of the majority, and people from the US love making this mistake. It is true that the president gets elected by a majority vote… but this person now represents everyone, including the minority that opposes them.
It is natural that their government will make decisions aligned with their voters (in theory) but they shouldn’t be allowed to actively undermine the rights of everyone else.
No matter how inflated your perception of your “flawless” constitution and democracy is, this is something many countries understand pretty well and yours struggles with.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you honestly think a military junta would be more representative of the American people than Trump, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Also our president is not elected via majority (or plurality) vote. This has been one of the major complaints about the American political system since 2000, so I gotta wonder how much you’re paying attention.
kadup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Good thing I never made such claim and absolutely nothing on my comment reaches that conclusion, then.
The details about your horrendous electoral system are irrelevant to the point, which by now is very clear you didn’t understand.
You’re not doing much to fight the stereotype of americans lacking basic reading comprehension though.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The point is that you don’t know the first thing about American politics, and are wholly unqualified to make any comments about it.
kadup@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You couldn’t even comprehend the point being made, misinterpreting it so fundamentally I genuinely - non-ironically - believe you struggled with the words being written.
And yet, what I wrote is a fundamentally basic aspect of democratic structures that it wouldn’t even matter if the US was the target of the comment. Funny how that is.