Lawlight said:
You could be right about that. France, Belgium and Japan are all flawed democracies as well. France has a 2nd round election so that could be why. Hopefully the anti-Trump people can see some sense. |
I live in Belgium and I think a 'flawed' democracy, like we have here, can be good too. Democracy is the best regime we have, but it's far from perfect. The majority rules in a democracy, but a lot of people have very little knowledge of politics, so they aren't really capable of deciding what's going to happen with their country.
Here in Belgium, every party gets a number of votes (there are quite a lot of parties). Then, a few parties can decide to form the government, if they together have the majority of the votes. This way, it's possible that the party with the most votes is excluded (I assume this is meant with 'a flawed democracy'). This is mostly a good thing though, since the extreme parties are excluded this way.
However, in the US, the situation is different. For example, Trump is already censoring the EPA, because the results of their studies may prove he's wrong.
