Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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Ka-pi96 said:

vivster said:

The US isn't a democracy, though. Actual democracies don't really have that problem. Of course the pointing fingers stuff is there but it doesn't have all of the lies, deception and things actually get done. Democracy is pretty alright if you have it and also actual politicians. The US doesn't have the former and only a small handful of the latter.

You can see that really well in the corona response. The states who fucked it up actually don't have any politicians, while the few that are giving it their best have one of the rare ones.

If the US isn't a democracy then few, if any, countries are.

And democracies aren't "alright". They're on average better than dictatorships, but only on average, it's certainly not always the case. I believe it was actually an American politican that said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those that came before it" and they're right. It is a bad form of government, it's just usually better than all of the others.

The US isnt a direct democracy. You guys dont follow the majority rule.
You dont follow that every vote is equal.   I would say America has a "weak" form of democracy compaired to many other places in the world.

Donald Trump only had 46% of the votes, to Hilarys 54%.
Bush only had 49% of the votes to Al Gores 51%.

These things shouldnt happend imo.
The system isnt fair, and republicans are drawing lines on maps, setting times&dates, and effecting the peoples ability to vote, in favor of themselves to beat the system. Ontop of how unfair it even is, that you can win by a minority of the votes.