Zkuq on 26 January 2017
| Screamapillar said: 1. *All* democracies are flawed. We don't need a hyperbolic, sensationalist headline to tell us that. We're not legally nor technically any less of a "democracy" than we were on January 19th. 2. Should also note that the US is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. In fact, the Founders detested the very idea of a true democracy. A democracy means mob rule, that the 51% can tell the other 49% what to do. Our system actually serves to protect the 49%. |
1. That's a dumb statement, because it essentially implies that trying to measure the degree of democracy is useless. The article also says Trump is just a symptom of the state of democracy in the US and not the problem itself.
2. Mob rule is a real problem only if a single party can get the majority of seats, which is inevitable in a two-party system. Here in Finland we currently have eight different parties in the parliament, and we don't have mob rule. It's not without its problems either, but it's definitely not mob rule.
