What has gone wrong with American democracy?

[dogtowner]

No - the government the people had chosen was destroyed by foreign capitalist intervention, as is usual. The Americans were just learning the imperialist trick. It is a bit like being honest in Trump's Government: they can't do with democracy and will always destroy it until stopped by the vast working majority.

What color are the unicorns in your world?

 

[penderyn]

What color are the unicorns in your world?

We don't have them, nor pigs for presidents.

 

[palerider]

No - capitalist mass-murder is what changed the ruling class back the thief-class. Give up whatever you're on for a while and read some history.

Got an example of capitalist mass murder that can even hold a candle to murder on the scale of socialist states?

 

[palerider]

No - they were attacked and vast numbers killed, as you ought to know. Pity about American brainwashing.

A failed two month socialist experiment which had to be put down by the legitimate government...that is the best example of successful socialism you can come up with ? Really?

 

[lawland]

George Carlin thinks it's the sheer number of malls and people who want to buy sneakers with lights on them! He may be a comic, but he may not be too far off the mark here.

 

[AugustineJurnior]

Vote buying.
Framers had it right with limiting the vote to land owners.

But you miss the rationale. They wanted many many more land-owners , a huge extension of suffrage.
At that time the only way you could be sure the voter cared in a local election was that he was truly local, a landowner.

On the supposedly undemocratic electorate: Far from excluding the poor, the electorate inthe founding era was the most democratic of any large nation in history. It included about 85 to 90 percent of free males. Those Founders who defended a property requirement forvoting did so, not in opposition to, but on the basis of, the equality principle of the Declaration of Independence. They feared—as we will see, not without reason—that thepropertyless poor might become the tools of influential and wealthy demagogues, distorting election results and endangering the survival of liberty. They changed their minds on thispoint as it became increasingly clear that the poor were not opponents but friends of therights of mankind, including the right to acquire and possess property.

So really you condemn Biden tons of immigrants, forgiveness of student loans, votes for criminals --- all on the basis of giving those who do not care and can't care a reason to keep the bread and circuses coming.