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Some Reasons The US Has Never Been A Democracy
The US has never been a 1 person 1 vote
democracy. Why?
1. The electoral college which has
installed 5 unelected conservatives,
2. the Senate
which gives California with 39,000,000 only the same
two senators as Wyoming with 600,000,
3. the Supreme Court 5 of whose current Republicans were nominated by two, G W Bush and Donald Trump, installed in the
presidency who received fewer votes than their opponents,
4. over 100 years after citizens' right to elect their senators was finally recognized, the same Supreme Court justices
are not elected and can impose their dead hands on justice ('the mark of a dragging foot on the sands of time') as they serially kill prisoners,
5. the ruling of a Republican court that money is speech, allowing billionaires like the Koch brothers, 1 of whom surives, to buy elections,
6. a duopoly easily involved in do nothing gridlock in which unlike parliamentary democracies third parties must face countless legal roadblocks,
7. tv and radio networks on which fairness time has been cancelled,
these networks, as Ralph Nader has written, paying pennies for
the license of public airwaves from which through the years they
have made trillions of dollars are just some of the reasons our
government is not a democracy.
