Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies?
Amnesigenic@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoA 1 to 1 vote to citizen ratio that is the actual determining factor in decision making, the electoral college alone completely destroys any argument for the US being a democracy just by existing, and we’ve had that bullshit running since day one
guy@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
That is the definition of a democracy, no representative voting?
Amnesigenic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If your representatives aren’t in any way obligated to vote in accord with the wishes or best interests of the people they represent then it’s definitely not any kind of democracy
guy@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Well neither are your representative congressmen.
Following that reasoning, only direct democracy is democracy?
Amnesigenic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, representative democracy works when the system is designed to actual require representatives to do that, to represent their constituents. The US does not do that.